This is an analysis of the poem To A Lady, Requesting Some Verses On The Birth Of Her Sister's First Born Child that begins with:
Damzell, right wel ye wot, that I of yore
Forlorne the hilles, and plaines, and silver springes,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbXXXX XbXbbcdcd XXeXXfgfX XhXhhceXX gXgcghghh XidXiXiXd XXXXjXjbb XhXhhcXcX aaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011111101 100101111010 1101011101 111110101010 1111010101 1110101001 11011110110 1001101101 010101110110 111101101 1101111101 0111111101 101111111001 01110101001 010010111101 11110101101 0101111111 10001110101101 0101110110 0011010111 0111010101 1110110011 101011111101 0111010111 0101110101 01111111 1111111110110 10101111011 0101101011 1001010101 011111001 1101010101 10010101001 1011011001 1011011111 110110110111 1101000101 1101010101 1100010101 10101010101 1111110111 1101110101 1001011001 1111011001 11010111011 110111110 101101111 11010111111 10111111111 10101111111 1111111101 0100011101 1101010101 1001010111001 11001111101 101001010101 0101011111 10101110001 1101011111 0100011110 1111011111 11111111111 1101111001101 1011010101 0111101001 01110101010 11111001111 11111101001 1101011001 1101011010 101101101 110111111101 1011111101 1101110101 111111111101 100110110111010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 393
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; and, with, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, with are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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