This is an analysis of the poem Against Urania that begins with:
Lo I, Song's most true lover, plain me sore
That worse than other women she can deceive,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdabddeffdeaadggdag hhhhheehheiijdXdchjjX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,21,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1111110111 11110101101 111010111001 1101001101 110001 1111110001 1101110001 101101 011101 0101000101 111101 1111 1011 0101010101 0111 1111110101 10010010111 10010 1111001001 1101 010011101010 111001 0101010001 0101011111 1101110111 1000011100 111101 1111100111 111111 0101010101 1001010101 1101000 01101101001 110111 1011010001 1010010111 1101010100 0010100 001100 1001011100 111101 1111 10110110111 010100111000
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 758
- Average number of words per stanza: 141
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; her is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nor is repeated.
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