To The Lady That Scorned Her Lover. by Henry Howard: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem To The Lady That Scorned Her Lover. that begins with:

ALTHOUGH I had a check,
To give the mate is hard ;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdce bXbXbfbf fbfbghgh ieieehdh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101 010101 111101 011101 111101 011110 100101 010101 111101 110101 110101 1101110 111101 111101 111001 011110 101111 110001 111110 100101 1101110 110101 1110010 110111 110111 110101 010111 111101 010011 110101 111010 011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

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

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