This is an analysis of the poem Coridon To His Phillis that begins with:

Alas my hart, mine eye hath wrongèd thee,
Presumptious eye, to gaze on Phillis face:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababaa XcXcdd XeXeXX XfXfaa XbXbaa X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 011111111 1001011101 11001110111 1111110101 11000111111 11011011011 011011101 01010010011 0101110110 1011110101 1000111101 1001111101 1111010101 1101001001 1111111101 1111011001 1101010011 1111010001 1001010011 11010111010 1001110011 01010101010 1100110111 1101110011 1100010101 1101110001 11010110111 1111110101 1100010101 1101111111 10
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thee is repeated).

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