This is an analysis of the poem My Lady's Law that begins with:
The Law whereby my lady moves
Was never Law to me, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab Xcdc eXXa eeXe efXf dgcgXbbab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 110101 11011101 110100 10111111 110111 11111101 111101 11011110 010100 11111101 011101 01011101 11101 110001001 111001 111101001 1101010 11111101 0110010 01011101 010101 111101001 010111 11111111 111101 01111101 010001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; law, that are repeated.
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