This is an analysis of the poem Anthea's Retractation that begins with:
Anthea laugh'd, and, fearing lest excess
Might stretch the cords of civil comeliness... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001110111 11010101000 1001010101 1111100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 4
- 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; and is repeated.
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