This is an analysis of the poem On The Friendship Betwixt Two Ladies that begins with:
Tell me, lovely, loving pair!
Why so kind, and so severe?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc dede fgfg gaga ahah
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 1111101 1110011 1001011 1010101 10100101 1010101 1011101 1010101 101111 1110101 1001111 1010101 1110101 1110101 0111101 1010111 101001 1011111 1010111 1110111 1110101 11100101 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; so is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word why is repeated.
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