This is an analysis of the poem The Vigil Of Venus that begins with:

Let those love now, who never lov'd before,
Let those who always lov'd, now love the more....

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  • Rhyme scheme: AA bbccddXbXXddAA eeffbbAA ffbbcbggbbhhbbaaeeiihhiibbAA jjffiikXbbAA bbeeeeccjjjjbbeeddAA aaeebbeehhbbddccAA eeddaaddbbggllAA aaddmmeeddAA bbaahhffAA bbeeaakkddhhaaeeXkkhhggddAA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,14,8,28,12,20,18,16,12,10,27,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1111110101 1111111101 001010100101 0101000100 00101101001 0101011101 0111000101 1101010101 11010101010 1111010101 11001010001 1111010101 11100010101 0101001101 1111110101 1111111101 1111110101 1101100101 1001010101 0111010101 1101010101 110101101 1111110101 1111111101 1101010101 1011110101 1101010101 0101110101 1101010101 1101010101 11001011101 1101010101 0101010101 1101110101 0101010101 11010011101 1101010111 1101010101 1001011101 0101011101 1101011101 10011010101 0111010101 1111010101 01010101101 0101010101 1101010101 1001110101 1101010101 11110101001 1111110101 1111111101 111000101 1011110101 1111000101 1111110101 1101010100 1101110001 0101010101 0101010110 1111010111 1111010101 1111110101 1111111101 0101010101 0101100101 1101111101 1101010101 1011001101 1111011101 11010110101 0101010001 1101010101 1111010001 1101110101 11001010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 110100100101 111101101 1101010101 1111110101 1111111101 10010101001 0111010101 1101110101 0101010101 1101011101 0101010101 1111011101 1101010001 0101000101 0101010101 0101001101 0101000101 1001010101 0101010101 11001110111 1111010101 1111110101 1111111101 1101010101 1101011101 0101000101 1111010101 01010100101 0111000101 01010100101 11010010101 1101011101 0101010101 1101010101 11010111001 0101110101 1101010101 1111110101 1111111101 1101000101 11001010101 1101010111 11000101001 11010111001 1001000101 10011010111 1111010101 1101010101 1111101001 1111110101 1111111101 0101010101 0101010101 1101010101 1101000101 1101110101 1101010101 0101110101 1111011101 1111110101 1111111101 11101010111 0101001101 1101110101 1101010101 1101010101 1111010101 1101011101 11001011101 1101010101 1001010101 1101101101 0101000101 0101010111 1111011101 1101010101 1101010101 11010011001 1111110101 1101011111 11011101001 1101010101 110110101 011011101 1111011101 1111110101 1111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 616
  • Average number of words per stanza: 108
  • Amount of lines: 166
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; from, and, his, love, here, her, all, thy, let, to, he, their are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words let, the, his, and, here, from, through are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word more at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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