This is an analysis of the poem There Is A Lady Sweet And Kind that begins with:
There is a lady sweet and kind,
Was never face so pleas'd my mind;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabB cXbB ddbB ccXb eebb ffbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010111 11011111 10110101 11110111 01010101 010111100 100111111 11110111 01100101 01010101 11010111 11110111 11010111 11111101 101011111 11010111 1101011 11110001 10011001 11110111 1001111 01011111 11111111 10110111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; i, her, change are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word her is repeated.
The author used the same word her at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word die at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase beguiles connects the lines.
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