This is an analysis of the poem Verses Found In Bothwell's Pocket-Book that begins with:

Thy hue, dear pledge, is pure and bright
As in that well-remember'd night ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb aaccddeeaaffgg ddhhgggffgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,14,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110111 10110101 11110111 11110101 11110111 01010011 11111101 00111101 011101010 110111010 10111101 11110111 110101101 01111101 11110111 01110111 1101111101 011111011 11011110 01110101 11010111 11010001 01011101 10111111 10010101 110011101 11111101 111111011 011111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 374
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; me, and are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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