This is an analysis of the poem To a Lady That Desired I Would Love Her that begins with:
Now you have freely given me leave to love,
What will you do?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababb cdcdd bebeX fgfgg fhfhhXfffff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101101 1011 11111101 110101 0101111111 1101010111 1011 01111111 010101 1100011101 1111011111 1001 01111101 110101 10110011001 1001010111 1101 11111101 100101 0101011101 1111000111 1111 10111011 100111 1001110101 1111110101 1111 11110111 110101 1110110001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; your is repeated.
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