This is an analysis of the poem To A Lady that begins with:

Offended by a Book of the Writer's
NOW that my page upcloses, doomed, maybe,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bccd beed adaaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 0101010010 1111100110 1001110101 1111011101 1111010101 10110011100 1101110101 11101101001 0111111101 1001111111 0111010111 1111010101 1110110101 1101110100 1110100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, and are repeated.

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  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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