This is an analysis of the poem To A Cold Beauty that begins with:
Lady, wouldst thou heiress be
To Winters cold and cruel part? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccddXdeeXcXcffbXcXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011100 01011101 1110101 1111111 1110101 10010011 1110111 11011101 11110101 1000101 1110101 01011101 1010110 1111111 1110101 10010101 1111101 0110001 1110101 1010101 1011101 11011110 11110101 00111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 802
- Average number of words per stanza: 146
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word thou is repeated.
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