This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xxi: A Witless Galant that begins with:
A witless gallant a young wench that woo'd
(Yet his dull spirit her not one jot could move), ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 0101001111 10110011111 10011101100 0111110001 11111101111 1111010101 1101111101 1101110101 1011010101 11010101110 1111011111 11110101010 1111010101 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 622
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his is repeated.
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