This is an analysis of the poem Xxvi: Good Creatures Do You Love Your Lives that begins with:
Good creatures, do you love your lives
And have you ears for sense?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011111 111111 10011101 111011 11110011 110101 11010001 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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