This is an analysis of the poem To A Gentlewoman For A Friend that begins with:
No marvell if the Sunne's bright eye
Shower downe hott flames; that qualitie... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabccddXXXXccXaeefXXgaaXhffXXiiXXccXeXXabgghhjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001011 10111110 110111111 110010100 01110101 1101101 11010101 1111101 01010101 11010111 11010101 010101111 11111101 11000101 11111110 01011111 11011101 010111011 10010101 11110110 001100111 00110111 11110111 11001101 01111111 10110101 11011101 11011101 11011101 10111101 11011101 11010001 11111011 11111101 01011101 01101111 11011010 01000111 11011111 111101111 01011101 11101100 101100101 01010101 11101111 11100101 100101010 111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1703
- Average number of words per stanza: 316
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; i, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words if, your are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase wound connects the lines.
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