This is an analysis of the poem The Poet's New-Year's Gift. To Mrs. (Afterwards Lady) Throckmorton that begins with:
Maria! I have every good
For thee wished many a time,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac dede dfdf gaga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111000 1111001 11100101 110101 01110011 1101110 110100111 0101010 11011101 1111010 01010101 0111010 11010101 110101 111101001 110101 11111101 111101 11000101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; more, or, in, it are repeated.
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