This is an analysis of the poem Fair Susan Did Her Wif-Hede Well Menteine - In Chaucer's Style that begins with:
Fair Susan did her wif-hede well menteine,
Algates assaulted sore by letchours tweine;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaa XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1100011110 10001011101 1111101101 1001000111 1111010101 110111101 1111111101 1100110110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; had, been are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word had is repeated.
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