This is an analysis of the poem My Lady The Tyranness that begins with:

Me since your fair ambition bows
Feodary to those gracious brows,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXXaaa cXddaeea ffffXXaa fXffaggA hhiiaaaA jjccXXjA kkaaabba XXclaccA clggamma Xfnnacla
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 10001101 01010101 11011000 110011100 11000 110101110 111111 01111101 11001000 11000101 110111001 110011101 1111 11110001 110111 11111111 110100001 11111101 11000011 110111100 1101 1010100101 111111 11111111 11010101 101010101 11010101 10110111 1111 11110100 111111 10011111 110001011 01010100 01010101 10110101 1111 11110101 111111 110101111 11010111 11011111 10111101 101101100 1100 110101101 111111 111011110 111100110 11010111 11010111 111101101 1101 11110111 1111001 11111111 110101101 1001001011 10110100 01110101 1101 10011111 111111 11111111 01010100 110100101 011111001 11011001 11011 01110101 111111 11111110 111111111 11110101 11111101 11111101 1101 10010110 100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 80
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; all, woman's, my, i, thou, her are repeated.

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

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  • summary of My Lady The Tyranness;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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