This is an analysis of the poem De Erotio Puella that begins with:
THIS girl was sweeter than the song of swans,
And daintier than the lamb upon the lawns... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccddeeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111010101 1101010101 11010101001 010101001 01010010101 0011010101 01001111 111010001 0100011111 0101010101 011100111001 0101010101 1011000011 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 589
- Average number of words per stanza: 107
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; of, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, her are repeated.
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