This is an analysis of the poem To His Mistress, Objecting To Him Neithertoying Or Talking that begins with:

You say I love not, 'cause I do not play
Still with your curls, and kiss the time away.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111101111 1011110101 1111011101 1101110011 11010111010 01111101010 1111111101 0101011101 11010011011 1101011101 1111001101 0101111100 11110100111 1111001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 634
  • Average number of words per stanza: 120
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, depth are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

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