This is an analysis of the poem The Marriage Of Edward Herbert Esquire, And Mrs. Elizabeth Herbert that begins with:
CUPID one day ask'd his Mother,
When she meant that he shou'd Wed? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbab bcbc XdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111010 1111111 1111111 11101010 1010101 10101010 0010101 10101010 1110111 10101010 0110001 100111110 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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