This is an analysis of the poem Thomas Heywood: X that begins with:
TOM, if they loved thee best who called thee Tom.
What else may all men call thee, seeing thus bright... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdecde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011111111 11111111011 10101010101 1111111100 11110011101 11010100101 1111010101 1101110101 1101111101 1101010111 110011101111 101101110001 1011110101 0101000011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 658
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; thee, and, of, thy are repeated.
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