This is an analysis of the poem Delia Vi: Fair Is My Love, And Cruel As She's Fair that begins with:

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Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XababXcXcdedeff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 1 1011110111 01111101110 0111010101 10011101010 01011001010 1111110111 01001111010 1011010101 10011010101 110110101 1111001101 1111011101 1111011101 1111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 672
  • Average number of words per stanza: 119
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; her, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word her is repeated.

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