This is an analysis of the poem For A Gentleman, Who, Kissinge His Friend At His Departure Left A Signe Of Blood On Her that begins with:
What mystery was this; that I should finde
My blood in kissing you to stay behinde?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXaXbbXXcXXXddXXXcXXeeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1100101111 1101010110 1111010110 1111111010 1111110001 1101010101 1101010101 0101001101 1001010111 1101111101 1001011101 1111010101 0101000100 0101110101 0101111111 1100010101 10001111110 0101001110 0101010111 1101110111 1011011110 1111000101 1111110111 1101011101 1110010101 11010011100 1111011111 1100011110 1111011101 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1324
- Average number of words per stanza: 253
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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, so, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nor is repeated.
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