This is an analysis of the poem Divers Doth Use, As I Have Heard And Know that begins with:
Divers doth use, as I have heard and know,
When that to change their ladies do begin,... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacccccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011111111 1101110101 0111110101 1011011101 1110110101 1101111110 1101110101 0100110011 1111111101 1110010111 1011011101 1101110011 1101110001 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 617
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; to, and, that are repeated.
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