This is an analysis of the poem Why Dost Thou Shade Thy Lovely Face? that begins with:
1 Why dost thou shade thy lovely face? Oh, why
2 Does that eclipsing hand so long deny... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa aaa aaa bbb aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa Xcc aaa ddd aaa aaaXaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111110111 11101011101 10110111001 10111110101 11111111101 11111111111 11111011101 11101011111 10111110111 111110111001 111110001001 11111111111 11111110011 11111011111 11111010111 11111111101 10111011101 11001111111 11101110111 11101011101 11111111111 11111011111 10101111101 11111011011 111110111111 111111111101 111110111011 110110011111 11111011111 11111111111 101011111110 111011111010 101010100110 11101010111 101111111001 11111111111 10111011101 11101111101 11111011101 10111111101 11111000101 11101010111 11101010111 10111111101 10101111111 10111011111 11111111111 11111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, thou, i, art, if, whom, but, me, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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