This is an analysis of the poem To Mrs. Unwin that begins with:
Mary! I want a lyre with other strings,
Such aid from heaven as some have feigned they drew.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011010101 11010111111 11001100101 11000110101 1111111111 1101110101 0111001111 1110000101 1111011001 11010101001 1101011101 0100010111 1111110101 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 607
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; of is repeated.
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