This is an analysis of the poem Upon The Curtain Of Lucasta's Picture, It Was Thus Wrought that begins with:
Oh, stay that covetous hand; first turn all eye,
All depth and minde; then mystically spye ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110011111 1111110001 0111001101 11010011000 1101010101 0101110011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; all is repeated.
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