This is an analysis of the poem The Repulse To Alcander that begins with:
What is't you mean, that I am thus approach'd,
Dare you to hope, that I may be debauch'd?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbbccdddeeffeegghhffcXddfXaaiihhffaaXbhhhhbbjjdXhhhhjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 56,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111111101 11011110100 1101010101 0101000101 1111111111 0101110101 1011110111 1111110111 1111010111 1011010101 1001010101 0111011101 1101111111 1101110011 1111110101 1101001001 0111011101 1101000101 1111011101 1001011101 1111110101 1101011101 1111001001 01001111010 1111110111 1101011101 1111011011 0001010100 11111100101 1001111111 1111110001 11111000001 1110111111 1101011101 1101111111 0111010011 1111110001 0111011011 1111111110 1001110011 1101110101 1011011101 0101110011 1101110101 1111010111 1111110001 0111010111 1111011101 1111110011 1111011110 1101011101 0111011101 1101010011 1111110101 1101011101 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2493
- Average number of words per stanza: 447
- Amount of lines: 56
- 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; and, you, my are repeated.
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