This is an analysis of the poem Seeing Thou Art Fair that begins with:
SEEING thou art fair, I bar not thy false playing,
But let not me poor soul know of thy straying. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbcXddeeffffbbgghheeiijjbbffbXccffffkkiillbXii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 50,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101111111110 11111110110 1111110011 1111010111 11110111010 11011110110 1101011111 11010100010 0100010011 0101011110 0111001101 1101010001 0101110100 1111111111 1110010111 1011100101 01010100101 1111111101 1111110111 1001110111 0101011101 1101110101 1011011101 1001011111 1011011111 1011110101 1011111101 1111110101 0111111101 1101011101 11111101110 011111001010 1111111101 10010111110 1011111111 0111110111 1111111111 1110011111 1111111101 1101110101 1111111101 1111100001 1101010101 11111101101 1111010101 1101111111 0111010101 1111011001 1101011111 0101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2280
- Average number of words per stanza: 437
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; and, there, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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