This is an analysis of the poem Poem 10 that begins with:
TEll me ye merchants daughters did ye see
So fayre a creature in your towne before,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccXcXXXXXXddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010011 1101001101 1111011111 1001011101 01011100101 010101 010110101110 0111010101 0110010110 0111010 011100101 1101010101 01010100101 0101110011 1111110001 10101 1101110101 010101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 733
- Average number of words per stanza: 134
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; so, her, lyke are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words so, her are repeated.
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- summary of Poem 10;
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- idea of the verse;
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