This is an analysis of the poem To His Coy One that begins with:

SEEST thou yon smiling Orange?
Upon the tree still hangs it;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbXXaaabX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010 0101110 0101110 1111110 1110011 1111110 1111010 1111010 1101110 110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 293
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; orange, and are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines orange is repeated).

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