This is an analysis of the poem Special Pleading that begins with:

Time, hurry my Love to me:
Haste, haste! Lov'st not good company?... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcca ddeed aaXXa abffb ggccgXffaaf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1101101 11110100 11011101 11111101 01111111 1111101 110101011 100110101 1111000101 11011111 1111101 111100101 11111101 111111110 11010101 0101111 110011010 100100101 11111111 11011100 1101101 11111111 11011111 01100101 11111101 10011111 1111111 11011101 1111111111 110110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • 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; haste, and, time are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines time is repeated).

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