This is an analysis of the poem Written In A Quarrel that begins with:
Think, Delia, with what cruel haste
Our fleeting pleasures move,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac dede fafa XgXg hfhf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001101 110101 1100101 010101 01111101 111111 11011101 110101 10111111 111101 10111101 110111 11100111 1100111 11010111 110101 010100110 111101 11110101 110101 10010101 110111 01011001 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; to is repeated.
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