This is an analysis of the poem Ad Ministram that begins with:
Dear Lucy, you know what my wish is, -
I hate all your Frenchified fuss: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac dedeXfXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111110 11111001 110101110 01001011 110011010 11001111 110110110 11101011 1011010110 1111011 1010110110 11101110 110110010 11001101 111011100 11011001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 282
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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