This is an analysis of the poem On A Gentlewoman's Blistred Lipp that begins with:
Hide not that sprouting lipp, nor kill
The juicy bloome with bashfull skill:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbXXccddXXXXddXXeXffXXgghhbXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 01010101 10011001 11011101 11010110 01010111 110010101 010111011 11110111 11110101 11011111 11010111 10010111 00010110 11110101 11010101 10110111 11011111 10011101 1100100 01011101 011010111 11011000 11010100 11010101 11111111 11000111 10110111 01011111 01110110 110100111 01101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1115
- Average number of words per stanza: 210
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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; that, doth are repeated.
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