This is an analysis of the poem When He Would Have His Verses Read that begins with:
In sober mornings, do not thou rehearse
The holy incantation of a verse;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101011101 0100110001 1111111111 1110010111 110111101101 1001110101 1101011101 0101010101 1011110101 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 450
- Average number of words per stanza: 85
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; when, and are repeated.
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