This is an analysis of Thursday, The Bassette-Table by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
CARDELIA.
The bassette-table spread, the tallier come,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X aab X bXccc X ddee X ffff X ccgg X XbbhXee X ii X eejXggff X jjffhhff X cchhjjdd X eeccddffhhddee X ccff X hhjj X hXkkffiiffee X ddddddddddee X iidd X bbee X llhhii
- Stanza lengths: 1,3,1,5,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,7,1,2,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,14,1,4,1,4,1,12,1,12,1,4,1,4,1,6,
- Metre: 100 0011010101 1110000101 1101010111 100 1101110001 1101110110 1111011001 1100110101 111111011 100 0001010101 01001110101 1111111101 0111110011 100 0101110101 0101010101 1111011101 010111101 100 0101010101 1101010101 0101111111 0101010101 100 110101010 1101011111 10010010001 11011010101 1011010111 0101111101 1111011101 10 1111010011 1101011111 100 0101001101 0101001101 1101111101 11010010101 0101010111 0101010101 1101110101 0101010101 100 0111010101 1101010011 1100010101 1101010101 1001110101 0101010101 0111011101 0110110101 100 0111010111 1101010101 1111010101 1111110101 0100110111 1111011101 0111101111 1011110011 100 1111010101 0101111001 0110000101 1111010111 1111111101 1101010111 1101111101 0101010101 1111110101 01010101001 1101000111 11110010101 0101010111 11011100101 100 1111110111 1101011111 1101101101 1101011101 100 1101110101 1101010101 1011011101 1111000101 100 1011011101 11101101100 1111110101 01010010101 1011010101 0101010101 0101010101 1101110001 10101110101 1101101101 1010111101 1101011101 100 1111011101 1101001101 1111010101 1101110001 0101010101 1111001111 11001000101 1111001101 1101010101 1111110001 1011011101 1101010101 100 1011010101 1111001101 11011100101 010010011101 100 1100010101 1001011111 11001001101 1101010101 10 1101011011 1101010111 0111011101 0100111001 0110100101 1101010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 36
- Lines: 148
Repeated words/phrases
i, this, she, her, when
Anaphora
i, and, this, she, how, the
