This is an analysis of the poem The Lover Pleads that begins with:
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When I had guineas many a one... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbbbccddXXaa X eebbeeaX ffgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,12,1,8,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 111101001 1111101 11110101 00110101 11011101 001110100 10111011 11011111 010101100 01101100 1011100 111110101 1 01010111 10110001 11011101 11010101 11011101 01110101 11110111 001001101 011101110 11111110 010001010 01111110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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