This is an analysis of the poem The Lady's Reward that begins with:

Lady, lady, never start
Conversation toward your heart;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeccffggddgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010101 10100111 1110101 1010111 1101111 1110101 0111101 1010101 0110011 10101001 1010101 0011111 1010111 1111101 0111101 1011101 10100011 1110101 10111101 10010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 588
  • Average number of words per stanza: 116
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; as, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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