This is an analysis of the poem Merciles Beaute that begins with:
1. CAPTIVITY
YOUR eyen two wol slee me sodenly, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a XXX aXXX XXXXXX b XXb XXXX XXXXXb X cbd cXCB XXXCBd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,4,6,1,3,4,6,1,3,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10100 1101111100 110101110 110111111 1111110100 110111101 1101111100 110101110 0111111100 1110111101 101101101 1101111100 110101110 110111111 1010 111111110 11111100101 1101110001 10111111100 1111110101 111111110 11111100101 10110101100 111111110 010111101 111111110 11111100101 1101110001 101 111101111 11010100101 11111111010 111011011 1111111111 111101111 11010100101 1111111001 1101101101 1101101101 111101111 11010100101 11111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; my, me, that, your, i are repeated.
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- summary of Merciles Beaute;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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