This is an analysis of the poem The Letter Of Cupid that begins with:

Cupido, unto whos commandement
The gentil kinrede of goddes on hy ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXXXa XcXccXXXXdXXXX XXXXc cc eaeaXfX XXXXXcX XaXXXXX XXXXXXX gXgXfXh XXXiiXe XXXXXXX XXXjjXX XXXXXXX kXkXXXX XlmllXa XgXXgaX XaXXnhh lllllXa XXXXXXX XXXXlnX bXbXXan cdcXXXa XjXXXii hfcXfXX XXXdXhc XaXaaXX XbXbboo XXXiill XdjdXXl XXXXXcX XkXXXbX XejpXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,14,5,2,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001011000 0101001011 1101000100 1010110100 01010110 0111011 0100100101 010011111 1100101100 1101010110 1101001100 0111111101 1011010101 11001010110 110110101 110101110 1111011101 1111100011 0101001101 111110110 011001100 1101001100 1011011100 11001110100 101101111 1111000110 1111010111 1110110001 1010101110101 111111100 111110101 01110010001 1100011111 1110010111 1101111110 110001011 110111011 1110011111 1011011101 100101011 1101010100 110111100 110101001 1011011111 101101100 111101111 100111001 010110011 110100101 1101011101 110001100 0110110101 1001110001 101001100 10101111 0111010101 11110011101 11010010101 1010010101 1111010010 1101010101 01011111110 1001010101 0001100010 0101001110 1000101010 1101000101 1111110111 1101110110 1111010111 001110110 111110111 1111011010 1111110101 0001101101 11001100 10011111 101111110 01010110010 100110101 011101011 011100101 1110111100 110001111 10011101110 110111010 10011110010 11011101 1111110011 0111000110 1001010111 1100101010 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1101011101 1011010001 0101011101 101011000 0100001001 1100110000 1101010111 11101100110 1001010100 111111011100 111111011 101011111 110101110 1110010010 011111010 11111010110 110100100 1110111011 010001110 010101110 1110110101 1101110100 11010101 1101010010 0010000101 110110100 1110111111 110111011 010010111 1111111111 011001010 0101111110 010110101 1110000101 11001111 1101100011 1110000010 0110010111 1011010101 1111110111 01011011111 0101100111 010111111 010011110 1011010110 101001100 1101111010 1101110110 111111100 11111111 1101111101 1001010001 1111100110 11100111100 10100101110 11110111111 11001101110 111100101110 110111010 1011100010 0101101100 1101010110 111101101 011001110 1101010101 1001011 10001101000 100110100 10010111000 1010110100 1101111100 1010010110 111110100 11101010 110001100 11011011 110101001 1101111101 110101111 11001010111 110101101 101011001 001111111 0111011001 0101100001 1111100101 101100101 1101011011 1111100101 1001011011 1010011011 111111100 1101101110 1110011010 0100111101 1001101101 111011010 100110001 110111100 1101110100 10111110 1001011101 110111111 1101011100 01011111 0110011100 1111010100 1111010100 11000110010 110101110 1010111100 111000110 110001011 111110111 111110010 010111101 1111100101 100110001 00101101001 1111110010 11011010001 1111111010 0101011110 1101100100 0110011000 1101111101 1110110111 01000111 0101011100 11110110 0010110001 01111100 1011010011 11011010110 01010111010 10101100111 1100100101 0110000101 110111101 1001100110 110101111 111111101 110110101 011101100 11001111110 110100110 100010100 11001010110 1001011010 1100011011 110001100 1011011011 11110110 1101101011 0101110011 110010111 0101101111 1001010111 0101110101 1101011111 1111011100 1001110101 101011001000 1001111101 0101010110 0011111011 1111110100 1100110010 1010101010 101011110 1100111111 101111000 010011110 1101111100 110110100 0111001010 0101110010 011001001 10110011001 1111110101 11011101 1101110110 1101010110 1011011100 1111001110 1110110010 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  • Amount of stanzas: 68
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 476
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, they, it, his, for, that, he, wommen, or, to, be, hir, hem, ne, shee, thy, our are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, as, for, that, to, a, they, shee are repeated.

    The author used the same words and, but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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