This is an analysis of the poem Venus's Looking-Glass that begins with:
I marked where lovely Venus and her court
With song and dance and merry laugh went by; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaaXaaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111010101 0111110111 1011011101 1001101101 1101110101 1011000101 0111111101 1111101101 10110011101 1101010111 1111010111 1111010101 110100100110 0111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 644
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; and, i are repeated.
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