This is an analysis of the poem A Description of Such a One As He Would Love that begins with:
A face that should content me wondrous well
Should not be fair but lovely to behold,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abababbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ottava rima
- Metre: 0111101101 1101110001 0101111001 0101111101 1011111111 0110100101 0111111101 1101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 358
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; should is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word with is repeated.
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