This is an analysis of the poem To His Mistress that begins with:
YOUR husband will be with us at the Treat;
May that be the last Supper he shall Eat. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddccXXeebXXeffgggghheecciieeggaabbaaeejjggbXaaddbaaaaccaahhccheekkbbllaaaaffmm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 84,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1100001101 1100110111 1111010101 1001111101 0111111101 1011010101 1101110001 1101011101 1001111101 0101111101 1111011110 1101011110 1111010110 0101010111 0101011101 11010111110 1111010100 1101110101 1011110011 1100111101 1101110111 1110010101 11010010101 0101110101 11011011101 0111010111 0111011111 1011101101 1101110101 110110101111 1111110101 11110010101 0101110001 1111010001 1001111110 1101010100 0101010101 0111010101 0101010101 101001011101 1101011111 1101010101 1101011101 1100110101 1011111101 1110110101 1111111101 1111011111 1110011101 0101100010 1111011111 1101011101 1101011101 1011011101 11111100101 1111010101 0100010101 10111101001 11011010101 1011011011 1111110101 0101011111 1111010001 01010111001 1111010111 1101110011 0101010101 1100111101 0111011101 1001011101 1111111101 1101011111 1110110001 0101011101 1101111101 10101010101 1110011101 11010101101 0111110101 1001100101 1111111101 11010110111 11101010101 1101011001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3670
- Average number of words per stanza: 692
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; i, be, my, your, with, his, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, when are repeated.
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