This is an analysis of the poem On The Lady Elizabeth, And Count Palatine Being Married On St. Valentine's Day that begins with:
Hail Bishop Valentine, whose day this is,
All the air is thy Diocese, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXaXbbXcXddcc aaeXfggfeebbcc ccfXhgghXfaacc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011100 10101100 11010100 1101110100 110101 01011011001 0101010111 0111001100 11011111 1101110100 0101111101 1101110101 0111001101 011110111101 111101001 11110111 11010100 1101101100 110101 1011011101 1101110111 0101110111 1100111 11010101001 11010110111 1100110111 1111010101 110111111101 1111011101 1101010 101011011 1101011100 111111 11011100101 1101110111 1101010001 11110101 1011011111 0101110101 1011010111 1110101101 111101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 594
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; two, and, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, this, thy are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word valentine at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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