This is an analysis of the poem Impromptu On Bachelors' Hall that begins with:

Fair Venus so often was miss'd from the skies,
And Bacchus as frequently absent likewise, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaaaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011011001 11011001011 1010010011010 010010010010 11011111001 101101011001 1100110011110 110110110010 110011110010 110010110010 111110010110 110010010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 587
  • Average number of words per stanza: 103
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

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

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

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