This is an analysis of the poem To Lovers that begins with:
Ho, ye lovers, list to me;
Warning words have I for thee: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb XXX ccaa XX ddee XXbX ccaaXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,4,2,4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 1011111 1111011 0011101 101100111 1110010110 1001011001010 1010111 1011101 1111111 1010111 10111110101 10111001010 0110011 1010101 0010101 1110101 100110010 00010101 11100101 011100100 1110111 1110101 1010101 1000101 1011111 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; ye is repeated.
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