Poem Analysis of And If I Did, What Then? by George Gascoigne for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem And If I Did, What Then? that begins with:

1 'And if I did, what then?
2 Are you aggriev'd therefore?... full text

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Rhyme scheme: aXaX bcbc dede afaf bgbg hfhX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: rima
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1101011 1110111 1011111001 11111110 1101101 1011101 111010101 1011101 11001101 1110111 1110111001 1000101 1110101 1110110 111111101 1110111 1101111 1101011 111010111 1110101 1111111 11100111 110111111 1111111
Amount of stanzas: 6
Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
Average number of words per stanza: 27
Amount of lines: 24
Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
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 is repeated.

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