This is an analysis of the poem Frendly Caueat To The Second Shakerley Of Powles that begins with:

SLumbring I lay in melancholy bed,
Before the dawning of the sanguin light: ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXbXabcXXcXaXXXXcXXdXXeccaaXXXdXXaaXee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011010101 0101000101 1101110101 111010011 10010101001 01010010010 11110111011 1001110011 110111101 1011011001 1011110010 1110100101 1111111101 1101010001 1 0001100101 1110101101 1001110101 1111010001 1101010101 0101100010010 11000100111 111001111100 0101001101 1101000101 1100110101 1111011001001 0110010101 1101010001 10011001001 111111101 1101010101 1101011101 1101000101 1101011101 11001010101 0111011101 10 10101010101 0101110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1692
  • Average number of words per stanza: 278
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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, nor are repeated.

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