This is an analysis of the poem Elegy Xix: To His Mistress Going To Bed that begins with:
Come, madam, come, all rest my powers defy,
Until I labor, I in labor lie.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXXccddXaeeffggaaffbb ffggXaaa aaheddggaXffhhii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,8,16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11011111001 0111010101 0111100101 01001011101 101101101100 1011010100 1011011111 11101011011 10101101001 1101110011 1011011110 1110111111 11101110101 11010111111 1011010111 01010111111 1101111101 0011010011 01111010100 0111110101 010110010111 11010111001 1011001101 1111111101 1011011101 0101010101 1101001111 11010010111 1101011100 111100010001 0100110001 1111011110 1100111101 111001010010 0111111101 1101011011 1101110101 0101110110 11011111001 1111110101 0111011101 1101010101 1101111111 11000100111 1011101101 1011010100 0111110111 11111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 702
- Average number of words per stanza: 128
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; that, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, my are repeated.
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