This is an analysis of the poem To Lucasta, Her Reserved Looks that begins with:
Lucasta, frown, and let me die,
But smile, and see, I live; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011111 111111 010100011 111101 11110101 11110111 10110111 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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