This is an analysis of the poem An Apology For Not Showing Her What I Had Wrote that begins with:

Did not my Muse (what can she less?)
Perceive her own unworthiness,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaabbXXccddeeffggee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01111111 01011000 11111101 11010101 11110101 01000111 11110110 11101000 010100101 10010101 10111001 11111101 01011101 100010101 01011101 10110001 11110111 101101001 01011101 01000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 686
  • Average number of words per stanza: 119
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; in, her are repeated.

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