This is an analysis of the poem Elegy Xvi: The Expostulation that begins with:
TO make the doubt clear, that no woman's true,
Was it my fate to prove it strong in you?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdXeeccffdddXggffhhiibbddddaahhjjkkiihillddmmffnnddggooddffddffff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 70,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101111101 1011010101 111111101 1111010111 0011011011 1101010101 11110011111 1101111100 11110101010 10111111010 1101011111 1111111111 1111110101 100111111 1011110111 1001110111 100101001010 11011111010 0111010101 1111110111 1101101111 11010111111 1101110100 0101111011 1101110100 01011110100 1011010101 0101110101 1011001111 0101010101 1101110101 1101011101 11110010111 0111011111 1001111111 1111110111 1111011101 1110010001 1110111111 1101011011 10111101110 01011100010 1111111111 1101010100 1101010111 1101011011 1101101111 1111011001 1101010101 1101001101 110100100101 0011110101 1111111101 0101110101 1101010111 1011010011 0111110111 0110111111 1101111111 1011111101 0111111111 0101110011 1110110001 01010000100 1101111101 111100101001 1101000101 1001010101 11101001101 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3135
- Average number of words per stanza: 593
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; or, your, and, so, you, he, his, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, and are repeated.
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