This is an analysis of the poem Rosemary that begins with:

Beauty and Beauty's son and rosemary -
Venus and Love, her son, to speak plainly -...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaaa XXaaaa Xbbbab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011011110 1011010110 10010100 11010100 101000100 111110 1010101010000 010011110101 010101000 11010100 1010011010 0111010 010111011100 10010101 0101111101 01111001 10011000000100 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

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