This is an analysis of the poem The Lover To His Lass that begins with:

Crown her with stars, this angel of our planet,
Cover her with morning, this thing of pure delight,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AAAA bcbc dcdc dede fbfb fgfg haha fafaXAAAA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010100110 100010010101 100011101010 101010001101 111101011101 10111010011 10011011001101 1000101010101 1010111010 1111010001 101010011001010 01010111010111 10110110010 11111011111 10111010010 10111111101 101110111010 1001101111 1001101101010 11111000111 1111010101010 11101110101 11110111010010 1101010101001 10100101110 11100100101 0111101010 100010100101 11101010111010 101010110001 10111011100010 1010100110101 10010100110 100010010101 100011101010 101010001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, of, with, away, them, and, it are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word saw at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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