This is an analysis of the poem At Beauty's Bar As I Did Stand that begins with:

AT Beauty's bar as I did stand,
When False Suspect accused, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaXaX bcXcXX cdXdeX cXcbcX cfcfaX ghghee cacaXX hghgXX fXfXff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101 110101 101011111 11010100 11111101 110111100 11110101 11010101 11110100 100011111 10011101 01110111 11010101 01010101 00110111 01000111 01010101 11110111 11010101 01111111 01010001 11110101 01010101 101111010 10010111 01010001 101011111 11110101 11011101 11111111 11110111 11011101 11010101 11011011 11011001 01011101 11011111 01011101 11110101 01011110 11111001 11101101 11010111 11111100 11110111 1101111 11010111 1011001110 11011111 11111100 11111111 111101000 11110101 10011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; '', i 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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