This is an analysis of the poem To Henry that begins with:
Think not, while fairer nymphs invite
Thy feet, dear youth, to Pleasure's bowers,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac dede fefe ghgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 1111010010 11011111 111101010 11010101 111101001 111111001 1100100101 10111111 01011111 111100101 10010100 110110001 11111101 01001101 11010011 11001101 11110001 11011101 11011111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; my is repeated.
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