This is an analysis of the poem O'Donohue's Mistress that begins with:
Of all the fair months, that round the sun
In light-link'd dance their circles run, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb ccbddb eebffb Xcbccb bbbggb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111101 01111101 111111 1111100101 111010111 110101 010111111 010011101 1111001 110110111 11010111 111101 010111101 11011111 111101 1100111001 0101100111 111101 111011110 11011111 111111 1100101110 11001110010 011111 010111101 110010111 111100 110011101 111111101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 30
- 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; and is repeated.
The author used the same word of at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word thee at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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