This is an analysis of the poem Delicious Beauty That Doth Lie that begins with:
DELICIOUS Beauty, that doth lie
Wrapped in a skin of ivory, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaab ccccb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010111 10010100 11110111 11011111 010001000101 10111101 11011101 11110101 111100100 110111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 10
- 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; lie, to are repeated.
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