This is an analysis of the poem Ladies that have intelligence in love that begins with:

Ladies that have intelligence in love,
Of mine own lady I would speak with you; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcadeccffcXf XccgXdXggfXhdX ijjdighddXXejj kXXXkggiillide mnncmXXcXdecaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,14,14,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011010001 0111011101 1111010101 1101110111 1101111111 1110110101 1011011100 01110010101 10010110111 1111111101 1100100011 0111011111 0101111100 1101110101 110001101 0110011111 0100010001 1100011101 10101110100 1100100101 1110011000 1101011101 01111100101 111010101 1101111100 1111110100 1101100111 111111111011 110001000110 10001100101 1011011101 0110011111 00110101010 1111110101 1101010110 1100010111 1101000111 01110100101 1001110110 0011010100 1001011110 1100110101 1101001100 11100110110 1101111110 00010011110 11110000111 0011011111 1011110111 1001100100 1100111101 1001110101 1111111110 10011101001 1001110111 1111010110 1111111101 0101011111 100101011111 0111010101 1011011001 1101001101 0111110011 10101111001 01110110100 1101110100 1111010100 1001110101 11010100101 0111011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 620
  • Average number of words per stanza: 115
  • Amount of lines: 70
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; i, thou are repeated.

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