This is an analysis of the poem Bkiii:Xii Neobule, To Herself that begins with:

Girls are wretched who can’t allow free play to love, or drown their cares
with sweet wine, those who, terrified, go around in fear of a tongue...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXa XXX aXb XXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110110111011111 0111110110101001 10010110 10100111011101 1111010010010010 1010010 1100111011001010 1010010110001010 11001101 1011100111100101 0101101011011011 10100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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