This is an analysis of the poem Too Dearly Had I Bought that begins with:
Too dearly had I bought my green and youthful years,
If in mine age I could not find when craft for love appears;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccbbddeeccbbffgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111111100 00111111111101 110111010101 11110101111101 111101110101 01011011010101 110101110101 01011111101011 111111101101 11111101111111 111101110111 110101010110111 1111110111110 11110111100010 111111110101 10011101111101 110101010011 11111111110101 110101110101 01011101110101 111111110111 11011101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1239
- Average number of words per stanza: 251
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, in, it, my, thy, see are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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