This is an analysis of the poem Epithalamion that begins with:

YE learned sisters, which have oftentimes
Beene to me ayding, others to adorne, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXaXXXbXcXcXcdd eXXXffgfghhXbbbXdD XiXXcXaXaaacddcXXdd cjcXggbgbkklXXlXdD hcXXXabXbbXdggdddd XXaXbXbbbXXXccXXdd hXhXXkkkkmmaXbaXidd clXlXXbbbmXbjjbccdd mbmbXilXXiXcllcccdD klklbbXbXXXXXXaadd kXkbcXncniiXjkjXadd fiXhoomomaakggkmXdd amaXXXnXkXlcnkXccdd X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,18,19,18,18,18,19,19,19,18,19,19,19,19,17,18,19,19,19,19,18,19,18,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 111011101 1011010010 111100110010 11001001101 01111011010 110011 1111111101 1111110101 1111010101 1101110001 1100100 1111000101 1101110101 1111110011 11101010010 110001011 1110110101 011011011101 1001011101 0101010111 10100110001 1101101101 1001010101 110101 1001110001 1111010101 00111101001 11001000111 011101 1001111101 110110111 111101011001 1001000101 1101101 1100011101 110111011101 10110101111 1001010101 1001110001 1011010110 1101000101 010110 11110101010 1111001110 11011101010 11011101010 0101010 1101010111 1101010111 01001010101 110100101 1111010110 110101 0111011001 011011011101 110010101001 0101011111 1101110101 1111110110 1111110101 111101 1101011101 1001011101 0111010101 1111011111 110111 1111111101 1101010101 1011110010 0111110101 010011 0101010101 110111011101 1111011001 01011111001 1100010101 11010101001 11010011111 110011 0101110101 01100101010 0101010101 1101010101 0010100 1111111111 1100111101 11001001101 110001111 010101 1101110011 110101011101 11010110010 101111110 0101111101 1111000111 1111010001 110001 11111101001 01011000111 1101000101 1111000101 111110 11110001001 0111100101 1010110001 1110011110 110001 1111010001 010111011101 1011110101 1101011110 1111110101 0111110101 11110100010 111101 0101110101 111111001 1111011100 1101001001 010001 1101010001 0101010110 1101111101 1111010101 1101101101 110101 11110010111 110111011101 1101010101 1101011001 01010101001 1101100111 1101010110 111101 1100111101 1101011101 01001111101 100101011 100011 1011010111 11000101101 1111010011 0101010101 10100110001 111001 1101110101 110101011101 1111010101 1100010001 1001010101 11011100101 11001001111 110111 0111011101 10011101010 1101010010 110100101 111101 010101001 1101011011 010101011 11111010011 1101010111 110101 1011110101 110111011101 1111010011 1101001101 1111011111 1001011101 01011100101 0101001 010110101110 0111010101 01100101100 0111010 011100101 1101010101 01010100101 0101110011 1111110001 010101 1101110101 010101011101 1011111111 0101000101 10010010101 1111110111 1110010111 1001001 1111110100 1001110101 0101011100 111110101 110101 0101010110 1111001000 111011000101 10010010101 111110010100 1100010 1111010101 110111011101 1001011011 1001111100 11010101110 1101010101 1010010101 110001 01001110100 11000111001 0011010100 11110011010 0101110 10101110111 0101010101 0111010101 1101010101 0100010101 0101010 0100010101 110111011101 0111010101 1001011001 1100001101 10110110010 1011010101 110101 110110101000 0101010110 0111010101 1100011111 011101 1011110101 110010100 1101110101 1110010110 1111010111 010111 1111010001 110111011101 1101110110 1101001100 1101010001 0101010100 1011110110 1101101 1111110111 0111001100 1101010111 1111110101 110111 11010101101 1111110010 1111000100 11010101001 1101011001 111101 0101011101 010111011101 1101111001 1111010101 0101011101 1111000101 0101000101 010001 0101010101 1111000111 1101010111 110101011 0101010101 1101110101 11011111111 1101010101 1100111 1101010101 110111011101 1100110111 1111011011 11010101101 1101110101 1111010011 010101 11010111101 1100111101 1011010101 101001 11010100101 110101001011 1101010111 11000110001 11011011001 110001 0111011111 110101011101 1111010111 01001101110 1101110101 11010001010 0101110100 100101 1001010100 1101010001 11010110100 0111011111 010100 1101011101 0101010101 1111101101 0100010001 1001110101 111101 1111110101 011111011101 11011111010 1111111101 1111111010 110111011 1111101111 111111 1011010110 0101011101 1111011001 1101010101 010011 110101110 01110011110 1111011001 1101011001 1111101101 101100 1101111101 1110101011101 110101110010 0111011101 111110101010 110100011 11010101101 110110 1111101101001 11101110101 111100100110 111110111111 1101101 1101110101 1011011101 111110101 1101011110 1111010101110 1101110 1101110101 1110101011101 1111011101 1101100101 11001100101 1101111101 011101011 1101001 1111010111 10010111100 11010111111 0101110001 101101 11001011110 110101000110 11010101010 111110011 1111011101 100101 1111011111 1100111011101 10011111010 1101111111 00110111010 11001110101 1101011110 110101 1111111110 1101011100 0101011011 010011 1101010001 1101010111 1101010101 1010101101 1011100101 111101 11111100101 1110111011101 1111010101 0101111101 1001000111 0101110100 111101011 010011 0100110101 1111010101 1111001101 0101110110 011011 1011001101 0101110101 1111010100 1101010011 111111101 110110 1111110101 1110111011101 11110010001 0101010101 1110110101 0101010101 11110100110 111111 1111011100 1101000111 1111010100 1001111110 010100 1011010011 110100110010 110010001010 011100101 1111110100 111111001001 011111011101 1101010100 0111110101 1101110100 1111111001 11010100 0100010100 1111110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 759
  • Average number of words per stanza: 136
  • Amount of lines: 433
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; her, and, let, to, doe, hymen, ye, so, lyke, bring, home, with, poure, of, now, in, nor, ne, theyr, that, our, may are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words so, and, the, her, open, bring, poure, how, now, ne, nor are repeated.

    The author used the same words now, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines not is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ring at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases ring, lay connect the lines.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Epithalamion;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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