This is an analysis of the poem On The Marriage Of A Beauteous Young Gentlewoman With An Ancient Man that begins with:

Fondly, too curious Nature, to adorn
Aurora with the blushes of the morn:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeccaXddffgghhXaXXiiaaaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 10110010001 0100010001 1101011111 1001110101 1101100101 1110010101 111010101 1101011101 11010111001 0101111111 101010101 0101010101 110110111 1011111111 1111011101 1101110101 1111010101 01011100101 110101101 0111000101 11111100111 0101010100 11001010111 1011000101 1101111101 1111110100 101110010110 111100101010 0101011111 0111010101 10110101001 0001111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1356
  • Average number of words per stanza: 249
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, and are repeated.

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