This is an analysis of the poem The Convalescent To Her Physician that begins with:
Friend, by whose cancelling hand did Fate forgive
Her debtor, and rescribe her stern award,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abababaacddcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11110010101 0101100101 10110010111 11110001011 1101110111 0101001101 1110011101 0101011111 10111011101 10010101101 0101010101 1111011100 10010011101 0111010011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 611
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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