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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