This is an analysis of the poem To A Young Lady, With Some Lampreys that begins with:
With lovers, ’twas of old the fashion
By presents to convey their passion;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXcccddeeffbbXbddbbggffbbddhhiibbcchagbffXXggeehhXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 54,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101010 110001110 11010111 01011111 110101010 101101010 110101010 101010010 110110001 01011101 11010101 01010101 110101010 110101110 110101010 111101010 11111111 11110001 11110111 11010111 00010101 01110101 11110101 11101111 11010111 11011101 100110010 110111010 11011101 11110111 011101110 110111110 1001101010 111001110 111111001 101101110 110100010 111001010 110100010 010111110 010011110 010110010 111110010 101101010 110111110 111101100 01110111 11011101 00111101 11111111 111110110 111111010 11111101 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2023
- Average number of words per stanza: 379
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; her, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
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