This is an analysis of the poem Lesbia's Daughter that begins with:
LESBIA'S daughter, I shall tell no lie,
Here's no fit amber for such a dainty fly. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddbbbbeeXXbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101011111 11110110101 1001110101 0101001101 1010001111 1101111101 11110101010 11011101110 1011010101 0110010101 1101110101 1101011101 0111010001 1101111111 1101010101 01001001000 1111011101 1001111110 1100011101 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 876
- Average number of words per stanza: 159
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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