This is an analysis of the poem Keepe On Your Maske (Version For His Mistress) that begins with:

Keepe on your maske and hide your eye
For in beholding you I dye.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccXXddaaaaeeaaXfggeeeehhiigXXfjjaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111 10010111 11010101 10010011 11011111 11110001 10111101 11010111 11011010 11111010 11110111 010100111 01111111 01011111 10111101 110010110 11010101 10111001 11111011 10111111 11011110 01011111 01011101 11111111 10110001 11110101 10110101 11011101 11011101 01110111 10110101 11010101 11110111 110100011 11111101 11111111 11111101 11010101 01011111 101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1402
  • Average number of words per stanza: 269
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; your is repeated.

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