This is an analysis of the poem On An Unfortunate And Beautiful Woman that begins with:

Oh, Mary, when distress and anguish came,
And slow disease preyed on thy wasted frame;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffgghhggeebbffbbiijjhheehh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101011101 1101111101 11001111111 1111100101 1101000111 11011101001 1111010101 1001011111 1110110001 0101001101 1101010101 1101010111 1101111111 10110010111 1110010101 1011001101 1110110111 1111110101 1111111001 11010100101 1101011111 1001110101 1101011001 1111010101 00101010101 1101110101 1111111111 1001110101 1001110101 1101011101 1101110011 1101011101 1111010101 0111110001 1011110101 11110011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1598
  • Average number of words per stanza: 288
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and, thy are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word thy is repeated.

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