This is an analysis of the poem To The Countess Of Exeter. Playing On The Lute that begins with:
What charms you have, from what high race you sprung,
Have been the pleasing subjects of my song:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcdeeffggaahhiiccccjjdkckeeXeiiiXbbbffggccgXffgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 51,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111011111 1001001011 0111110111 0101010101 11110101001 1101110101 11001010111 1101110101 0101110101 01011111101 11010111101 1111011111 1001010101 1101110101 1101110101 0110110101 1111011111 0111111101 11010110101 1110110111 1101001101 1111110011 1001111111 1101011111 1101111101 11110110101 1011011111 1101010111 10110101101 1011010101 11110111010 0111010101 1100111101 11111011001 11010111101 1011110110 0101011101 1111111101 01001010011 1101001110 1001000101 0101110101 1011111101 0101110101 0101110101 1111111111 01010101100 1110111001 1001010101 1001010101 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2288
- Average number of words per stanza: 409
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; and, your, our, to, had are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.
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- summary of To The Countess Of Exeter. Playing On The Lute;
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