This is an analysis of the poem A Rondel Of Merciless Beauty - The Original that begins with:

I. 1.
Youre two eyn will sle me sodenly... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXXXXX XaXb XaXa XXXXXXX XAbX XaXA XXXXA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,4,4,7,4,4,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 111011100 110100110 1100100111 1 1111010100 110111001 111011100 1 0111111100 1110111101 101101101 111011100 110100110 1100100111 11 111101111 111100101 1101110001 1 101111110 1111110101 11111111 1 01110101100 111111110 010111101 111011100 110100110 1100100111 11 111101111 1110100101 11111111010 1 111011011 1111111111 111101111 1 1111111001 1101101101 1101101101 111101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet repeated the same word fat at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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