This is an analysis of the poem Lady Surrey's Lament For Her Absent Lord that begins with:

Good ladies, you that have your pleasure in exile,
Step in your foot, come take a place, and mourn with me a while,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffggddhhiijdkklXdXkkjjggddllkXmmbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 010111110011 10111101110101 111111111101 10110101111101 1111111100010 011110101101010 111101111111 11011101111101 111101010111 11010101010001 111110010101 01010101110001 111101110111 01111101010111 110111111111 01011110110111 010111111111 11111101010111 110101111111 11110101011101 010101111101 11011111010101 111101011101 100111111010111 101101010111 1101010101111100 110111110101 1110110011111010 1000101111011 11111001011101 111101110101 01001101100101 111001110111 1101010101101 1100111010111 11111110110001 1111110110101 01011011110101 111011111011111 110111011110110 111110010011 11111101110001 111111010111 11000101110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2478
  • Average number of words per stanza: 484
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 55 (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; my, they, i, and, that, in are repeated.

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