This is an analysis of the poem Love Compared To A Game Of Tables that begins with:
Love is a game at tables where the dye
Of mayds affections doth by fancie fly:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001110101 010101111 011111001 0101011101 1100100111010 10110111010 1101111101 1111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 340
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
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