This is an analysis of the poem He Wonders Whether To Praise Or To Blame Her that begins with:
I have peace to weigh your worth, now all is over,
But if to praise or blame you, cannot say.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeaeXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 111011111010 1001111101 11010101010 1111011101 0101011101 01111101001 1011110111 0111101101 11100111110 11011101111 11011111110 11111111111 10110111111 11110101111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; more, i, you, fool are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words dear, most are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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