This is an analysis of the poem When Ragyng Loue With Extreme Payne that begins with:

When ragyng loue with extreme payne
Most cruelly distrains my hart: ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc XaXXXX XaXXXX XaXadd bebXee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010011 1101011 1111011001 11001101 110110111 11110101 1101011 10101011 11010101 11111110 11000101 100101010 111011101 11001111 110011111 11010101 11000110 010101011 11111110 11110101 1101011 11110101 11111100 100100111 10110001 110010101 11111101 0100111001 11010101 10111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; my, to are repeated.

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