This is an analysis of the poem To Mrs. H. Battson that begins with:

To you, dear sister, I would now address
A rude production of my rhyming brain;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab caca bdbd ecec cacf cgcg dfdX hihi jkjk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0111011111 0101001101 1001011100 0001010101 10010110101 1111111101 1101000101 1111011101 1101011101 1101111101 1111010111 1111010101 1111111101 1101111111 0111110001 1101010111 1111110101 1011110101 1111110101 0011010100 1111101101 0101011101 0101010101 0111110101 1111111101 0101110101 1111011001 1111110110 1111110001 1111110111 11010111001 0101011101 1101110111 1111111101 1011101101 0111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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