This is an analysis of the poem The Innocent Ill that begins with:
Though all thy gestures and discourses be
Coin'd and stamp'd by modesty;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaacdcdeee ffeebgaghhh aaiifefejjj eekkbgbgddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,11,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1111010100 1111100 10111101 11111110111 11010101 011101 110110101 1110011 11000101 011111001 1101011101 1011110110 111001001 11110111 01001001101 1010100 10110101 01111111 11011111 1010101 10110101 0111011101 1011110100 101110101 11011101 0111111001 11011101 11101101 01111111 111001100 01011101 11010101 01010010101 1101000101 11011101 11010101 1111110111 11110100 11100001 11000100 11111101 11011101 11001101 1110010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 475
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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, thou, so are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, thou, so are repeated.
The author used the same word though at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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