This is an analysis of the poem On A Gentlewoman's Watch That Wanted A Key that begins with:
Thou pretty heav'n whose great and lesser spheares
With constant wheelings measure hours and yeares... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbXXaaccddeeddffggXbaahhbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011111010 010101010110 1100111101 0101010101 1101001101 1111110111 1101011111 10000010011 1101001111 11111101001 0011010101 11111100101 111010111 1011011101 0101010100 1111010100 1101010111 10111011011 0101011101 01010011011 0101010011 1111100111 011101100 01010011111 10110011111 01011101101 1101111111 1011110011 1111010111 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1321
- Average number of words per stanza: 235
- Amount of lines: 30
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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