This is an analysis of the poem Who'Ll Buy Gods Of Love that begins with:

OF all the beauteous wares
Exposed for sale at fairs,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeddXfdD eeXXggdD hhbbiiddXggffdddd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010101 011111 101101 111011 010111 110111 110101 111001 110111 110101 011101 110101 1011101 101111 010101 111001 110111 010111 1111100 1011010 110111 110100 011111 111001 010101 010101 110111 110101 101111 111101 010101 111001 110111 110101 110101 110111 1111010 0111010 010101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; so is repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word sold at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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