This is an analysis of the poem Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 21 that begins with:

A virtuous and beauteous youth
Was pledged to a chaste maiden. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXbacXXXXdbXcbXbad
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01001101 1100110 1110011 1100010010 101010101 111101010 11010001 11101011 110010101 00100111001 110101001 1010010001 10100101010 10110111101 01100001110101 10100010010010 111001101100 11110101001 0101100010101 1101010110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 860
  • Average number of words per stanza: 160
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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