This is an analysis of the poem Modern Love Xxxvi: My Lady Unto Madam that begins with:

My Lady unto Madam makes her bow.
The charm of women is, that even while ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbacddceffegddg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010101 0101001101 1110111111 1111111111 0101110101 0101110011 0101010011 1101011011 1101010101 0011010001 0100011110 1101111101 1101010001 110100111110 1111110001 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 680
  • Average number of words per stanza: 119
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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