This is an analysis of the poem My Lady Nature And Her Daughters that begins with:

Ladies, well I deem, delight
In comely tire to move; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccddeeXfggddhh aiaieeiihhccjjaaff kckclleebbkkllaamm memenniieeXX aaaaoo XhcdaallXddeeaaggcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,18,18,12,6,19,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011101 0101001 1110011 10111 1111001 1111101 111111 11110101 1111101 1011101 1010100 11101001 1010111 1111101 1011101 1011101 11101010 010101010 1011101 010101 11011101 10101 11101111 10011101 1011111 11101001 10111110 11111010 1111101 1010001 11101010 11101010 1010101 1111100 1010001 10010111 1010001 00101 01010001 1100101 10010101 1010101 10100100 11011101 11101011 1110111 1010101 01010101 1010101 1110111 1010101 1010101 10111010 10101110 1010111 010111 1010101 110101 1011111 1010101 1011101 1010101 1010101 0010101 1010010 0010101 11101001 1010101 10011101 1010101 1111101 1110100 101010 0101010 1011111 10101 11111011 11111101 1111111 1010101 1010101 1111101 1000101 0011101 1111101 1110101 1000101 1110101 1010111 1011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 423
  • Average number of words per stanza: 71
  • Amount of lines: 91
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.

    The author used the same word ladies at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).

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