This is an analysis of the poem Sweet Rose Of Virtue that begins with:

Sweet rose of virtue and of gentleness,
delightful lily of youthful wantonness,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbba ccXXc ddeee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 1101010100 01010010100 1001010101 101001010111 0110111100 00110011101 111100101 111101001 1101101000 1111111001 1111001101 111110101101 110111111 101111010101 11000100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; of, and, in are repeated.

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