This is an analysis of the poem To A Lady that begins with:
SWEET rois of vertew and of gentilness,
Delytsum lily of everie lustynes, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaaX XbXcb XXcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1101010100 10010010100 10011011 1101010101 011111100 0011011010 1111011001 11011110001 11001001101 1111111101 1111001101 1101011101 10101101111 1111010110 110001010110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; of, and, i are repeated.
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