This is an analysis of the poem The Amorous Courtesan that begins with:
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour,
In ev'ry age works miracles a store;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbccXdeeaaff ggffhhiiffggjj aaffaaggkklljjbbaaff jjjjggmmggnnmmjjffccoocc ggggffff iiggll ffggffbbff ffkkffccffff ffmmggff llkkbbcc nnmmllffccoo ffiikkeeaajjaa ffoollbbkkXdffjjbk ffffff iiaammffffgggg ggppbbkkjj iiooffn X b k a X bf k n X nq ffkkXdgg kX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,20,24,8,6,10,12,8,8,12,14,18,6,14,10,7,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,2,8,4,10,10,10,40,6,21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010110 0101110001 1101011011 11110010011 1101110111 1101010101 0101010101 11000111010 0101010111 1001010101 0101011101 1001010101 0101000101 0101011101 0101000101 1110110001 11011001101 0001010001 1101110101 1101010111 0101110111 1101110111 0110110101 0101110101 0101110101 1101011101 1101010101 11100110101 1101111101 1101010101 0101010101 1101001101 1101010001 1101110101 0101010001 1101110101 1110100101 1100010001 0100011101 0001110101 0101001101 1101110001 0101110101 1110100101 0101011111 1101011101 0101000101 0100110101 0101101001 1111010101 0101000101 10010101001 1001010111 0111011101 11110100101 1101010101 1001010101 1111001100001 0111011101 1111110101 1111111001 1111010011 11100110101 1101010101 1001000101 1101001101 11010000101 11001110101 1101010101 1101010101 0101010101 11001010001 1110010101 0101110101 1101110101 0101010011 1101010101 1111000101 1111010111 1101001101 01010010001 1101001101 0101011101 1111011101 1101111101 1111110101 0100011001 1101011101 1100111101 0101010001 11011101010 10010111010 1111001001 1011010001 11010010101 0111011101 0100011001 1101011111 1111010001 01001110101 1101110101 1111111101 1101010111 1111010101 1101010101 11010100101 110100101 0101010101 1001010101 1111110111 1101000101 1111111101 1101010001 1101010101 11000111001 1101101101 1101100111 1111010101 1101111101 0111010101 0101110101 1101111001 01010101001 1101010101 1100011111 1111010101 1011010101 11110010001 1101110101 1111010111 1101001101 1101011111 1111110111 1101101110 1101001101 0101100101 0001010101 0111011101 0100110111 1101110001 1101011110 1101111101 0101010101 0101000101 0111110011 0101010101 1101001111 1101111101 1101110101 1111010001 0100010101 10010010101 1101010101 1101111101 1011011101 0111011101 11010100011 0111010001 0111111101 0111111101 1101011001 11110101110 1101110101 1101110101 0111111111 01001001101 110111111 11011101001 0101110001 1101010101 1101011101 1101000101 0001010101 1101110101 1111111101 1001111101 1110110101 1101110101 1111101101 1111110110 1100010101 1101011111 1111011101 1101110101 1111111111 1110111101 0101000101 0101010101 0100010101 1101000101 0111010101 1101010101 1111110101 0101011111 1110010100 1111110101 1101011101 0111110101 0101011001 0101010001 1111110101 1100010101 01100110001 1100011101 111111 100 1111 10 1101 100 110111 1001 10 101111 100 1100011111 1010 110101 0101010001 1100010101 1101010111 0101010011 110001000110 0101110001 1111000110 1101010011 1111111100 1110010101 1100111101 1101000101 1101010101 1101110001 1001010101 1001110011 1000010101 1111011001 1100010111 1001110101 1101110111 1101101101 1101011001 0101010101 1111010101 1111110001 1110010111 10001010011 11001010101 1001110101 1111010001 1101110101 1101110101 0110110001 1111011101 1101001011 1100010101 0101011111 1101011101 11011100111 1101011101 1001011101 1000010101 0101011101 1101010001 1110010101 1101010001 1101010101 1101011101 0101100101 10101010101 0101111101 1101011001 1111100101 1111011110 11000001011 0101110101 1111111111 1101110101 11111111010 11111101010 1101011101 0011010011 1101110101 1101011101 1101110111 1100010011 1101010101 0101010111 1111111101 0101010111 1101010001 1111110101 01110101101 010111011000 1111011001 1101010101 1101010111 1101110001 1101100101 0101010101 0011010101 1101010001 0111000101 0101010111 0101010101 1101100101 11001010111 0101010101 1100110001 1101110101 1111100101 0101011101 1101010111 100100101 1101011101 1101011100 0101111101 1101010101 0100100101 1100100101 0101010101 0101110101 1111110101 0101110101 1101110101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 36
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 379
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 325
- 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; his, to, her, and, you, i, of, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, the, a are repeated.
The author used the same words the, to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Amorous Courtesan;
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