This is an analysis of the poem Beauty's Blemish that begins with:
You are as young, O lady mine,
As ere you were in olden days,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaa ccccdd ccccbb Xeaebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 11100101 11111111 11111101 11011011 11111111 11111101 10011111 11010101 11011111 01101111 01010101 11110111 11101111 11011101 11010101 01111101 11010101 11011110 01110111 11011101 11110101 110101000 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; you, your are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ears at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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