This is an analysis of the poem Song Of A Scholar And His Mistress, Who, Being Crossed By Their Friends, Fell Mad For One Another; And Now First Meet In Bedlam that begins with:
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The Lovers enter at opposite doors, each held by a keeper.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X bcaac XccccddedXfaa be XaaX b bgegege Xfcf bh Xhaha X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,5,13,2,4,1,7,4,2,5,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001 0101011001111010 10 1111111101 111101 111101 10111111 100 1011 01011 110101 10110110001 10111 110001 110110110101 1111 1101010111 1101010111101 110110110101 1101111010101 10 111111111001 100 010110 110101 111101011101 111011010110101 10 11100111 1110111 11001001 11011011 0010100101 1010111 100 10101011101 011001 110101010101 10 101111 100 110101 101101 111101 101001010 111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; tis, dear, no, phillis, let, me, and, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word 'tis is repeated.
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