This is an analysis of the poem From Venus And Adonis that begins with:

But, lo! from forth a copse that neighbours by,
A breeding jennet, lusty, young, and proud,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbaa dedeXX fbfbee gbgbaX hXhadd ibibff jbjbkk dededd ebebdd lmlmbb mnmnmm oo ancndd ndnddd pqpqnn blbldd qnqnqq XaXacc ndndXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,2,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101011101 0101010111 1001010110 1111011101 01111011001 1001100111 1000111111 11010111010 0101001111 11011011010 0101110101 010111010 0111010101 01010011111 0101011101 1001010111 01110010110 10110101010 1101101101 0101001101 1011011011 1111111101 1011010101 0011010101 1101010101 01001010111 1111110101 1110001101 1101110111 1101001101 1101010101 0101010101 0101010111 1001010101 1001010101 0101010111 1111010111 1111111101 1111111101 1111110101 1101111011 1011011101 0111111111 10111100010 0101011101 11111111110 1101110111 1001111101 11010111100 1101101101 101111101110 1111010101 1101110111 10011000001 1101010101 1101110101 1110010101 1111011001 0101011001 1101010101 01010101011 11010010101 10010101011 0001110101 11011001110 11011101010 11001111010 01010001010 10011110111 01010100101 1101111100 1101110101 01110101001 1111111011 10111110101 10110101010 1101011011 11110001010 0101010111 11010100101 100011010101 0101010111 1111110101 0101010011 1111000101 1010011111 101010101010 01110111001 101100111110 0101011101 1111111001 1001010001 10011110101 11010101001 0100010111 1011100111 110110011 0111110101 10111011001 1101100001 110010010111 1111111101 11000101110 11011001110 1100110101 1111011111 0111010001 0111111101 0100011101 111100110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 110
  • 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; and, he, his, she, they, at, with, each are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, and, each are repeated.

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

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