This is an analysis of the poem An Ode : While From Our Looks, Fair Nymph, You Guess that begins with:
While from our looks, fair nymph, you guess
The secret passions of our mind;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dedeXbaba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111111 01010011 11011101 01011101 11011101 01010101 00111101 11011101 11111111 111100111 11110111 11111101 01010101 11010101 10111101 11001111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word while is repeated.
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