This is an analysis of the poem Bki:Xvi He Repents that begins with:

O lovelier child of a lovely mother,
end as you will, then, my guilty iambics...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbc cdea faaX bfgd dcde cbXg ecdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001001010 1110111010 100111001 110010010 10101010110 010100101 110101001 1111010010 11110110101 11010011010 11010110100 1111010010 1111001101 100100100111 110101011 010000010010 10110101010 10011010010 100110010 1100110011 10010101101 11101000111 101110111 11110011011 11010101011 11101101011 011011101 1010111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nor, or, to are repeated.

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  • history of its creation;
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