This is an analysis of the poem Age Comes A-Wooing that begins with:

With shameless and incessant lust
Thy tremulous hot hands are thrust... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbaaaaccdd eeffggcc hhbbbbaaiijj kkkkiillhhb biiaammii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,12,11,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010101 11001111 011101000 11011101 11110101 10110101 11011101 111100101 01101101 11010101 01100101 11111101 11010101 10111101 11011101 11110101 11010101 11010101 10110101 11011101 11110111 01100101 01111100 11111101 11010001 11110011 110010101 00010011 11110111 10100101 010110011 00010001 11111101 10110101 11011111 10110101 11110111 10011101 11011101 10011111 11010011 11010101 11011100 11110101 11110101 01110101 111100111 11111101 10110101 01010101 10110101 11110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 354
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; on, my, to, that, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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