This is an analysis of the poem Lisetta's Reply that begins with:
Sure Cloe Just, and Cloe Fair
Deserves to be Your only Care:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccddeeebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 111111 01001101 1111101 1000101 1110011 1101111 11110011 111101101 10110111 10111101 1101111 11100101 01011101 10010111 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 511
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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- summary of Lisetta's Reply;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Matthew Prior
- Analysis of The Female Phaeton
- Analysis of Songs Set To Music: 3. Set By Mr. De Fesch
- Analysis of Songs Set To Music: 6. Set By Mr. Smith
