This is an analysis of the poem To His Coy Love that begins with:
I PRAY thee, leave, love me no more,
Call home the heart you gave me! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ececfdfd gbgbhbhb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111111 1101111 11011101 1110111 11110111 110111 01110001 110001 11111101 1101001 11110101 101111 11001111 1111010 11000101 11010110 11110111 1111011 111111001 1111011 11110111 1101011 11111101 1101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 337
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me is repeated.
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