This is an analysis of the poem The Bait that begins with:
Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff eedd gghh hhggXhhdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011011 11011101 01011101 01011101 100101001 11111101 1101000101 10011101 11110111 111100101 01000011 10011111 01001111 11111101 10111101 11111101 11010101 11110111 110001101 0100111001 11110101 01010111 110010111 01110101 11111101 11101111 111011011 01010111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
The author used the same word let at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Bait;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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