This is an analysis of the poem To A Lady That Desired Me I Would Beare My Part With Her In A Song Madam A. L. that begins with:

This is the prittiest motion:
Madam, th' alarums of a drumme... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbb cbddXXee aXXXffbbgg eefXhhffcchXggaagXii ddXX XaXXaa jjkkXgffiiaa aabXXfaabX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,10,20,4,6,12,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0001010 101100001 11111011 01110100 11111101 11111101 11011111 10110101 00110101 1100011 101100001 01011111 11010011 10111010 11010111 110101101 11101101 11111111 11110101 01111101 11111111 01000101 11010101 1110101 110010011 01010100 11011101 11111101 11111111 01011101 01010111 11000111 0101011 111001001 10110101 01010101 111111111 11111101 11100100 1110010 111101101 11010111 10010101 11010110 11011111 111101111 1111000 011110111 10110100 10111110 10011101 11110001 11110111 10011111 11101101 11111101 110110100 10011101 011100101 01011100 11111001 10011011 11111001 11110100 11110001 11010001 11101101 10111100 11111110 01000111 11011111 10011101 11011101 100100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 324
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 74
  • 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; it is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.

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