This is an analysis of the poem A Bitter Song to His Lady that begins with:

O LADY amorous,
Merciless lady, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXdbXXeXadXeafXXd ghhddXgiidjdbccdccd bkklefbiilefjkkjggj mbbldgmaeldgbffleeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,19,19,19,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110100 10010 11011 11100 10110 01110 011100 11100 11010 01100 11010 00110 01100 01010 11010 11010 01000 11000 10110 11010 11110 11110 101010 00110 110100 11010 11011 01111 01011 010010 10110 100110 01011 11011 00111 11011 11111 11010 01010 11110 11000 11111 111110 11110 11010 11110 10111 01011 110100 10110 001011 101110 11010 100011 01010 101010 10011 11010 11110 01010 11101 11111 10110 01111 01010 10111 10011 11110 110010 11010 11010 01010 11111 01110 11011 1011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 409
  • Average number of words per stanza: 74
  • Amount of lines: 76
  • Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, it, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him, me, it are repeated).

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