This is an analysis of the poem What Kind Of Mistress He Would Have that begins with:

Be the mistress of my choice,
Clean in manners, clear in voice;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXaaabbccddeeccff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0010011 1010101 0110111 1011101 0110001 1010100 10100101 1000101 0110001 1010101 1110001 1010101 1010101 1011111 1010110 100101 0111100 1011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 517
  • Average number of words per stanza: 99
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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