This is an analysis of the poem The Lover Describeth His Restless State that begins with:
AS oft as I behold, and see
The sovereign beauty that me bound ;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ecec fbfb XbXb gggg babX dgdgXagag
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110111 01010111 010110001 01010011 111111010 11010111 110111010 01111101 11011101 110100010 11011101 110110010 11111101 11011101 11010111 11010011 11000111 11001111 111111011 11011101 01010101 11011101 11011111 01010101 11011101 01010111 11111101 01111100 11010101 01111111 01010101 01111001 11111101 11111001 01110101 01110001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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; her, me, my, full are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word as at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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