This is an analysis of the poem Wishes To His (Supposed) Mistress that begins with:
Whoe'er she be,
That not impossible she... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa aab ccc ddd eXe bba ddd fff gXg hhX ccX eee aaa iiX eXe jjj aaa jjj ggg kkk lll ddd iii ggg mmX Xnn ggg aaa mmm eee eeX ggg lll bXa jjj eee eee aaa jjX ggg eeeXbab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010 1101001 11011111 10011 110101 01010100 1111 010111 11011011 1101 010101 01011101 110110 0100110 101111010 11010 1111010 0101011011 1011 1001111 11010111 1101 011101 10111011 0111 101101 11010101 0111 101101 11101111 0111 110101 11010101 0111 110101 10110101 1111 010111 11010101 1101 1101011 11110100 11010 010101100 111111110 1011 101001 11011101 1101 110101 01101111 1101 111101 00110011 0111 111101 11011001 1101 110111 11110111 1111 011101 11001111 1011 010011 11011101 10101 10110 11110101 1111 101111 11010101 1101 111111 1010100 11111 1101010 00101010 1101 010101 00111111 1111 111101 111110001 1111 010001 11011101 1010 0110110 111101010 11010 1011010 11100111 10001 111101 11100101 0011 110101 1110001 0100 10110 01001100 1101 011101 010111001 1011 1011001 10010011 0111 110111 01000011 0110 111101 11110001 1111 111011 11010100 11010 1101010 110011010 11100 1111010 10100010 10110 1101011 011101010
- Amount of stanzas: 42
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 80
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 126
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, her, my, or, that, of, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, of are repeated.
The author used the same words till, a, days, her at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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