This is an analysis of the poem Written At The Request Of A Gentleman To Whom A Lady Had Given A Sprig Of Myrtle that begins with:
What hopes - what terrors does this gift create?
Ambiguous emblem of uncertain fate.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXddaaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010101 01001000101 0101000101 0101010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101010101 0101010101 00101010101 1101001101 1101001101 1101111101 0110011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 561
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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