This is an analysis of the poem A Praise Of His Lady that begins with:

GIVE place, you ladies, and begone!
Boast not yourselves at all!...

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaba cbcb dece fgfg ffff hXhe ihih dcdc hehe cXdc eiXi fdfd jeje kbkb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110110 111011 11111001 110111 01000101 010101 11011101 011101 01001101 100101 01110101 011101 11101101 110101 11110101 110101 110101 100101 11110111 110111 01100101 011000 01110111 101111 01010111 111101 01010101 010101 01010111 010101 11011101 010101 11011101 1111101 11001101 110101 01011111 0101000 11111001 110100 11000101 110101 11001100 110111 10111101 110101 110100001 110101 11110101 001001 11011111 110100 01011101 111111 01011101 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, nor are repeated.

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