This is an analysis of the poem An Oath that begins with:
A month ago Lysander pray'd
To Jove, to Cupid, and to Venus, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 010101010 11110101 010111011 11010111 110111010 11100101 111101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; to is repeated.
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