This is an analysis of the poem Xii: Epistle To Elizabeth Countesse Of Rutland that begins with:
Madame,
VVhil'st that, for which all vertue now is sold,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbccddXeccXXXXaaffgXXXgghhiiggddiijjeeddccggkXbbXXkXeejjkXXfXXccddddfXcXkXllffggddXbggkkkXjjf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,93,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10 111111101 1111001101 11010101110 11011011110 10111011101 01001111001 11110101001 10011010101 1011010001 1111000101 11010101001 0111111110 0111010111 1011010110 11010111111 1101111111 1011011101 10111110101 1111011111 0011010110 0101110110 1011110111 1111110011 1101101010 0110110101 1101111101 1101101100 0101001101 101111101 0111110011 11011111010 00011111010 0110010101 1111111110 011101011 1101100111 1011001101 1011110111 0111111101 1111010101 00010111010 11011111110 01111101001 0101110101 1011011111 10110011101 1101110111 1111011101 1101000101 1101111101 0101111101 1011011101 1101101101 1111001101 1101011111 0111010111 1110111101 1001101000 111010001 111100111 1101010001 110100001 1101010101 1111111111 1111011101 0110011001 110101001101 1111010101 1100010111 1111111110 1101010111 01110101111 110010010010 11010111010 0001011111 01001011111 01110011100 1111111111 1111111111 1101110101 1101110111 1111111101 1101110100 1111111111 011101100 1110011110 1110110101 1101011111 1111010111 01001110100 1101110101 1111111101 110010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2115
- Average number of words per stanza: 384
- Amount of lines: 94
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and, or, to, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, to are repeated.
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