This is an analysis of the poem The Perfect Marriage that begins with:
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I hate this yoke; for the world's sake here put it on:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbbbbb X ccdddeeddff X bbggaahhhhccggiijj X ddhhkkaaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,1,11,1,18,1,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1 110110111101 101111111101 101111011111 1011100101111 111111111101 001111110101 1 111100011101 110100010101 110111110101 110001011001 011101011011 110101011101 110111110011 110111010111 010111001101 011101111111 1101110110011 1 101111011111 101101010101 101101010101 010101011101 01010100101001 010100110011 010100111111 0101100011101 0110010111001 1100111011111 010110011001 101101010101 111111011011 0101111111001 111111111101 100101010111 110101011101 1111011111001 1 1101011111001 101111111111 110111011111 111111010101 11101100101110 1111011011101 110111010111 010111111011 1101001011011 1011011111000
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 311
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; i, and, to, it, seems, from, there are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, knowing, it are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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