This is an analysis of the poem Valentine And Ursine that begins with:

Part the First.
When Flora 'gins to decke the fields...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdc efgf cfXX hfif Xcfc ifjf ebfb befe akck hklk cbfb bhah ccac XkbX Xklk fala bkfk fcbc bihX cfdX fmam bkgk dfff bdjd adid imam hbeb cmnm fjij ffmf afhf foje Xfaf dmhm fdad gfff mcic cdkd gmlm flbX f XcXX kaba fgcg ffaf mkfk ehjh ecfc hdcd eXbe hflf Xe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 101 11010101 010111 110101101 001101 01011101 110101 00110101 010101 01010101 010101 10111101 011101 10110111 111101 11010101 110111 100101010 011111 01010111 100101 010110001 0100101 11110101 110101 11010111 111101 01011111 110101 11011101 110101 11100101 011101 11111011 010111 11010101 010001 11111101 110111 11110101 010101 11010101 0100111 110011110 010100 110101001 100101 11110101 111101 11010101 010101 11011101 111101 11011101 110101 01010101 100111 110101010 010101 11011111 110101 110111011 111011 11010101 01111 1011111 110101 11110111 1011001 110101111 110111 0101101011 110101 11110111 011101 111110101 010101 1111101 1111001 111101101 111011 11010111 010111 111000101 111101 01010101 010111 11110101 010001 00111101 010101 010111001 010101 11010101 010111 11010101 110101 11110101 1101001 110101001 110101 11010111 110101 11110101 110101 110101001 010101 11011001 111101 01011111 110101 11011101 110101 010100101 1100101 01010101 110101 11010001 110101 01011101 010001 11110101 111101 110101001 110101 10010111 0111010 11010101 110111 110101001 1101001 10011101 111101 110101001 10000101 11011101 1100101 11110101 111101 10110101 010111 11011101 011111 11011101 110111 11010101 101101 11100101 1111001 01010101 110111 11010101 101001 01011101 010101 10110101 010111 100101111 101101 01110101 010110 1010 01010111 111101 01010111 1100110 010010101 0101001 11111101 1100101 01111101 110011 01011101 011101 01011101 0100101 11111111 110101 11011101 101101 01010101 011101 101110111 1100111 11010101 110101 01010101 110101 01000101 110001 01010101 010101 11111101 111101 01010101 1101010 01011011 110101 11010101 011101 1101111 110101 11110011 1101001 11011111 1101110 11010101 111111 11011101 111101 11011001 110101 0101011 110101 11010001 110110 01010101 1101001 01011101 0100101 11010111 111101 11011101 010101 1101011 011101 110101001 110101 010100101 0101001 01010111 111101 11010001 110101 110101001 01101 11010101 110111 110111001 010101 010010111 110101 1101101 110011 01010101 111111 10110101 0100101 11010101 0100101 01110101 1110011 11010101 110101 010101001 010101 11110110 010101 10111101 101101 01010111 010101 11010101 111101 11000101 110111 11110001 101100 11000101 010001 11110101 0100101 110111001 1111001 11010111 110101 11011101 100101 11110101 1101001 01010101 101101 110111010 011101 11010100 110001 11010011 1101100 01011111 110101 11010111 110101 11100101 110101 10111101 111111 11110101 110111 11110101 100111 11110101 010111 11110101 110101 11010101 110111 11011101 111101 11011110 110101 11011111 110101 01010101 0111010 11010111 110111 01110001 111011 11011001 111101 01011101 110011 111000111 110101 11010111 111101 11011101 111001 11001101 110101 11011101 11111 11011101 111101 11111111 110111 11011101 1010011 110010101 1110100 10010100 110101 10110101 111101 11010011 111101 11111001 110101 11111111 1100101 11110111 00111 11110101 0101010 110010101 110101 11110111 111111 11011101 110101 11011111 010111 11010101 010111 01010101 110101 11010101 011110 11110101 110101 11010111 110101 010101101 111101 10010111 110111 11011101 011110 100101011 1101010 11010101 010101 11010111 111101 11010101 010111 11111101 010101 11010011 010101 11010101 010101 11010011 001111 00110001 110101 11011101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 100
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 398
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; boon, and, he, beares, his, three, times, with, my, ', to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words through, the, his, so, three, and, her, a are repeated.

    The author used the same word as at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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