This is an analysis of the poem A Praise Of His Love that begins with:
Give place, ye lovers, here before
That spent your boasts and brags in vain;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXcc cacXdd eXecff ececbb gcgcbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 11111101 11010101 01011111 11010101 11010101 110010111 11010001 11111101 1011010 11011101 11011101 11010111 01010101 11110101 01011111 01011101 11111101 11110101 01010101 11111101 11111101 10110101 11110101 11011001 00010111 01101101 11011101 10011111 01010001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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, she are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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