This is an analysis of the poem To The Right Honourable The Lady Penelope Dowager Of The Late Vis-Count Bayning that begins with:

Great Lady,
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  • Rhyme scheme: a XXbbccddee ffbagg Xdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,10,6,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 110 1010011 0101010110 0111111111 1001110101 0101111101 1111010101 1111110111 0101110101 10110101110 01010101010 0111011111 1101101101 1101010101 0101011100 0111111110 0100111101 11111101111 1111110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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