This is an analysis of the poem The Convent Gardener Of Lamporechio that begins with:

WHEN Cupid with his dart, would hearts assail,
The rampart most secure is not the VEIL;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccddeeffddgghhbbbbddffeeiiff iijjeekkffeellaaggjjkkffhh ffeeffXmkkeehhffff ffddddffbbbbjjhhggjjffiiffbb bbaaff bbbbfXmmaaddkklleeffkk ffnnoXjjiiaaoohhppjXffbb bbkkii aafXkkeeccffffbbXddjjggddffkkffccbbbbhhff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,26,18,28,6,22,24,6,41,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1100011101 0101010101 0101000101 1111001101 1101010011 1101010011 1100010101 0101011101 1101011101 0100010110 0111000111 1101011101 0101010011 1101011101 1101011101 1101110101 1100110001 0101111101 0101000101 1101110011 0101001101 0101010101 11010010101 0100011101 0101010101 0101010111 1011010111 0111011111 1101110111 1101110101 1111101111 1101110101 0010010111 1001111101 0101000101 0011010101 0101000111 1111010101 0101010101 1101000101 0101010001 1111011111 0101001101 1101010111 1101110101 1101110111 1111110101 1101010101 1101011111 1110010111 1110011111 1101011101 0101000101 1101110101 1111010101 1101100101 1111010101 1101011101 1101110111 11110100101 0101000111 1101011111 1101010101 1111110001 11110100010 11011101010 1101010111 11110110101 1101001101 0111111101 0101010111 1001110101 1101110101 0111100101 1101011101 1101011101 1101011111 1110110101 1101110111 11010011001 1001001100 1101101011 110110101 01110101101 1011110111 1001110001 1111110001 0100110111 1101110001 0101000001 1101011111 1110010101 0100110001 1111001111 0101111101 0001000101 1101000101 0110010001 1101110101 1101110101 11110011101 0111010001 1101010011 0110010001 1111010001 1101111101 0111010111 1101011101 1101010111 1111000101 01010001101 1101000101 1111011101 1101110101 1001010101 1101110101 0101010101 11010111100 1111000101 1101111101 1101011101 1110010101 0111000101 01010010111 1101010011 1101010111 1111010011 1101010101 1110010001 1101000101 1111011001 0101010101 0111011001 01001011101 1110010101 1111011101 1101011011 0101011101 11110101010 1111110011 0111110001 1001001101 1101111101 1100011101 1101100001 1111111101 01010111010 11011111010 1111110011 1100011111 1101110111 1111010101 1100011101 1101010110 0101011111 1111111001 0101010101 1100110111 1101010101 1101010101 0101010101 0101011111 1101011001 1101010101 0101110111 0101011101 1101111101 01010100010 0111010111 0111011101 11001010011 0101011100 0101010101 1101010101 1111111101 10001010101 01011101010 01010111010 0101010101 1001010111 01100001111 1111011101 1101111101 1001010111 11100111101 0101110111 1100111111 0101010001 1111110101 1100010101 0101010101 1101110101 0101010011 1101010101 1101110001 1001010111 0101111111 0111110001 1101010101 1100110101 1001010101 0101010101 1101110101 0111001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 880
  • Average number of words per stanza: 159
  • Amount of lines: 204
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, in, and, they, he, be, i, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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