This is an analysis of the poem To An Afflicted Protestant Lady In France that begins with:
Madam,-- A stranger's purpose in these
Is to congratulate and not to praise;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccccddccddcccceeffccaXggeeaaddddhhiiiiggddddcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 50,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 100101001 0001011101 010100101 0101111001 01011100101 10010000101 0111110101 10011010001 0101011101 1001110001 11001011101 111111001 01110101001 11111100101 1101010101 0101110101 0101010101 1111010001 1111110111 1101001001 1111010100 0101110101 0100010101 0100010011 1101010110 1111000101 1101010101 1101011101 1100010101 1101010101 0101011101 1101011101 11001010101 01010100001 110010100101 0100110111 110100111001 0101011101 11001011101 01001000101 1011111101 1001100101 1101011101 1011010101 1101011101 1001011101 1111000101 11001010101 1101010101 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2137
- Average number of words per stanza: 391
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; to, of, every, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.
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