This is an analysis of the poem To My Lady that begins with:
You with all gifts of grace, have this one gift--
Or simple power -- your way of life to lift ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddbbeeffgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1011011011 11010110101 1101100101 01011010101 1111111001 0111101111 1111001001 1111001101 1111011111 1010011111 1111001001 1101011001 11010010001 1111001100 01001111101 1110110101 1111111111 1101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 762
- Average number of words per stanza: 155
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, way, no, you, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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