This is an analysis of the poem Since First I Saw Your Face, Thomas Ford's Music Of Sundry Kinds that begins with:
SINCE first I saw your face I resolved to honour and renown ye;
If now I be disdained I wish my heart had never known ye. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aXaaa ccaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111010101011 011001111111011 111111111101010 11111011101010 0101111111111011 101111101110111 1 1111111101101011 111111111010011 0111110011001010 111101011111010 110111011101011 111100111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, no, and, you, me are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ye, me are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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