This is an analysis of the poem A Sweet Contention Between Love, His Mistress, And Beauty that begins with:
Love and my mistress were at strife
Who had the greatest power on me:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcXc dede fdcd fgdg dcec hbXX hbXb dXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110011 110101011 01011101 11010000 11100001 11100001 01010101 11110101 11110101 10011101 11110101 11010101 11010101 10010101 11110101 01010111 11110101 01110111 11111101 110000101 11011111 10111101 01111001 01010111 11111101 11110011 111111001 111100101 11110101 11110111 11111101 01110101 11110101 01010101 111111011 111001101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, and, to, too are repeated.
The author used the same words she, but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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