This is an analysis of the poem To A Lady Who Sent Me A Copy Of Verses At My Going To Bed that begins with:
Lady your art or wit could nere devise
To shame me more then in this nights surprise. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddccddcXaaXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1011111101 0111100101 1111100111 1101110101 0111001101 111111101 1111010101 100100100 0111010101 1011010101 1100011111 0101001101 1001111101 1101011101 1011111111 11101100111 1111011101 1100101101 1101101110 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 866
- Average number of words per stanza: 161
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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