This is an analysis of the poem A Careless Man Scorning And Describing The Subtle Usage Of Women Toward Their Lovers that begins with:

WRAPT in my careless cloak, as I walk to and fro,
I see how love can shew what force there reigneth in his bow :... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeXXXafXggddfXfXXhhaXbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 31,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 101101111011 11111111110001 111101010101 11110101110101 110001110101 011111101010101 101101110101 11110111110101 111101110101 11010111110111 010111110011 11111111110111 11011111011111 10011101010101 1111101110101 11011001110111 111111111101 010100010110111 111101111111 01010101110011 100111110101 11011111110 101 110101011110 11010111110101 110100111101 11110101011101 110101111101 11000101100101 110001011111 10111101110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1705
  • Average number of words per stanza: 341
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, ', that, such are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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