This is an analysis of the poem Verses On Receiving A Flower From His Mistress that begins with:
Madam, the flower that I received from you,
Ere I came home, had lost its lovely hue: ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbbccddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10010110101 1111110101 1100100101 0101010101 11010111111 0101111111 1101000001001 1101101101 01011100011 0011001101 1101110101 11010100101 11110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 568
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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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