This is an analysis of the poem Salopia Inhospitalis that begins with:
TOUCH not that maid:
She is a flower, and changeth but to fade. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXbeeffggbbaaffee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 10010110101 100111 1101110101 01110111 1101010100 0100110001 1101110111 1110 1001000101 100111 1101010011 01110111 1011010111 1000110011 11011111101 1011 1001111111 1000111 1101110111 01110111 110011101 11110110101 1100110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 882
- Average number of words per stanza: 166
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, and, from are repeated.
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