This is an analysis of the poem A Valentine's Song that begins with:
MOTLEY I count the only wear
That suits, in this mixed world, the truly wise,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacAC XdedfcFC bXXeacAC gdgdfcFC ababacaC ghghfcfC didiacaCXbhbhhehe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10110101 1100110101 11010101 1111010101 1011010101 10110011111 10010101 010101 1111011100 110011010101 11111111 1101111101 0111011101 1001010111 110101001 010101 110011101 11010111000 11110100 1110010101 11110010101 1111010101 10010101 010101 11111101 1111010101 11110111 1111110111 1101010101 1011111111 110101001 010101 11100101 0111010111 01010101 11110101000 0101010101 0101010001 010010101 010101 11110111 0001001101 11110101 1011111101 1111111111 1111010111 110101001 010101 11110101 1111010001 10011101 0100011101 1100011101 1101010111 00010101 010101 111011101 1101011101 10111110 1101010111 1111011101 1111110111 11010101 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 314
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, truth are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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