This is an analysis of the poem Valediction To His Book that begins with:
I'LL tell thee now (dear love) what thou shalt do
To anger destiny, as she doth us ; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacccdd Xeefgggff bddbbbbbb hiieffbjj gffXfffkk gffglllehXebbegggee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,19,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111111 0101001111 1111111011 1101001101 111101 1010101 01010101 1011110011 101111100111 101101110 0101111111 1111010000 01111001001 110101 1010101 11000101 1111010101 010101001001 0111110100 110110111 0101111100 11110101100 101011 1010100 1011011 1001001101 111100110101 11100110100 0111011111 10011000111 1101011111 111001 1010011 10111111 11100101111 1000101100100 1110111101 1111010011 11110011010 0101010100 110111 1011100 01111001 1101101101 100111111100 1101001111 1011010101 1111010101 0001011101 011101 1001101 11011111 0011101101 100101111100 1111011101 1101111111 1110101101 1101110100 010101 1111101 11101001 0101110111 101111010100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 368
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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, to, this, as, they, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word here at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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