This is an analysis of the poem To His Mistress that begins with:
Why dost thou shade thy lovely face? O why
Does that eclipsing hand of thine deny... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa aaa aaa bbb aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa aaaXaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111110111 1101010101 01100101001 0111110101 1111111101 1111111111 1111011101 1101011111 101110111 11110111001 1111000101 1111111111 1111110011 1111011111 1111011011 1111111101 0111011101 1011111111 0111111101 1111000101 1101010101 11011100111 1101111101 1111111111 11111101111 11111111101 11110111011 1101010111 0111111101 0110011101 0111011111 1111111111 111111111 1110010111 1101011110 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, thou, i, art, if, and, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, thou, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines stray, me are repeated).
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