Keepe On Your Maske And Hide Your Eye by William Strode: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Keepe On Your Maske And Hide Your Eye that begins with:

Keepe on your maske, and hide your eye,
For with beholding you I dye:... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaa cXXXdd eeXXcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111 10010111 11010101 10010001 11010011 11110001 10111101 11010111 11011010 11111010 11110111 010100111 11111001 11010111 110010101 11000101 10110101 11011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word their is repeated.

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