This is an analysis of the poem Love's Servile Lot that begins with:
LOVE, mistress is of many minds,
Yet few know whom they serve;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbb cded ffXf ggeg ehah ihhh gjcj ckak gidi baea aaga aaXa aaga glgl gmam caga gccc XncnXamam
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11000101 111111 11011101 110101 00110001 010101 10010001 010001 11010101 010001 110011001 011111 010101001 111001 11010101 010101 11111101 011101 01011101 110101 111011010 1111001 11111101 1101011 11011101 110101 1111001001 110001 11110101 110101 11011101 110101 010011101 0111010 11011101 1111010 11010101 1101010 11010111 1101010 11010111 110111 11111101 110111 0101011 110101 01010101 111101 010111010 110101 01011101 011001 11011101 0111010 01010101 1101010 11010101 010101 11010101 1100101 01010101 1100101 10010101 1100101 01000101 111101 11010101 100101 01011101 011001 11011101 010111 11011101 111101 11010111 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, to, thee, her, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a, she, her, like are repeated.
The author used the same words she, her at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Love's Servile Lot;
- central theme;
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- history of its creation;
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