This is an analysis of the poem Phillis Ii that begins with:

Love guards the roses of thy lips
And flies about them like a bee; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ceXe fbfXXcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010011 11010101 01011101 10111101 101111010 11011101 101101010 10111101 111101010 10111101 10110001 10111101 111101010 11011101 110101010 10111100 10111111010 01011111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word love at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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