This is an analysis of the poem Why Should I, From This Long And Losing Strife that begins with:
Why should I, from this long and losing strife
When summoned to depart, halt half-afraid?... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdbcbccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1110011101 1100011101 1011010101 0100011101 1001111111 10111101001 1101111111 1111110101 1101010110 1101110101 10011110101 01110100101 1101010101 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 624
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we is repeated.
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