This is an analysis of the poem Greensleeves that begins with:
A new Courtly Sonnet, of the Ladie Greensleeves.
Alas, my love, you do me wrong...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaX bcdX dede f dgdX f cbcb f cXcg f dXdB f hbhB f ibiB f jbjB f dbXB f ebeB f jbjB f jXdB f hghB f agaB f XbXb f bbbb f kbkbXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 011010001100 01111111 01111000 11111111 0100110 100001111 1001101 10011101 11111100 11010111 01110111 1111111 11100101 10 11110011 10111100 1111111 111111000 10 111101001 0111110 11110111 11011111 10 11011111 01010100 11010101 1111110 10 1100111 01001100 01110101 1111111 10 11111111 11010001 11010101 1111111 10 11010101 01110101 11111101 1111111 10 1110011 11010101 11101101 1111111 10 11010001 11010101 11111010 1111111 10 11010111 0111011 1110111 1111111 10 1101101 11010111 10110001 1111111 10 11111111 1110100 11111101 1111111 10 11010111 11110100 01110011 1111111 10 110101101 11110100 11010111 1111111 10 11011101 1111111 101110101 1110011 10 11010111 11110011 11110111 1110011 10 10011101 1110101 11111101 1101111 10
- Amount of stanzas: 36
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 76
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 94
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; greensleeves, my, thy, they, thee, thou, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words greensleeves, thy, they are repeated.
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