This is an analysis of the poem To A Valentine that begins with:
Faire Valentine, since once your welcome hand
Did cull mee out wrapt in a paper band,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXXXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101111101 0111100101 1001110111 1100101100 1101111101 0101010101 1101011011 0111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 354
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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