This is an analysis of the poem Songs that begins with:

COME here fond youth, whoe'er thou be,
That boasts to love as well as me;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabccb dde ffe ddfggf eXchhc ddbiib hhiddi ffX hhj kkfeef X bb ii aalf ccgg dddd hhdd aahh mmff X n ahah X ajaj n XlXf X aiai n mcmc X ohoh bcbc X iibggb ddhddh bbchhc ddfjjf hhe cce aafddf ddeeXe a bbpbbp hhbccb ddbhhb aajiij hha qqa a rrghhX hh aeea ssd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,3,3,6,6,6,6,3,3,6,1,2,2,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,4,1,6,6,6,6,3,3,6,6,1,6,6,6,6,3,3,1,6,2,4,6,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111010 11011111 1011111101 11011101 11110001 1111110101 00001101 01010110 0111010101 01010101 11110101 0001101111001 00010101 01011101 1100111101 11011111 11110101 1101010101 00011101 110111101 1101110101 11011101 11010101 1011111111 00011101 01111101 0101001111 11010111 11011101 1101011111 01010101 11110001 1001010101 11111101 10110101 1111110101 01011101 11111101 1101101110 110101011 11100101 1101001111 10111101 11110101 1111010101 11110101 01010101 101111110101 11111 01011101 11010101 11010111 11100111 01010111 10010111 010101010 10010101 11010101 00110111 01011101 11010101 01010111 10010011 010101010 11011101 11001101 01010101 01010101 11111111 11111101 11111111 11010111 110010101 11101010 11111110 10011101 11010101 11111 100 11101011 1110101 110111011 1011101 10 11101011 10100111 101110011 10010111 100 10101010 11101110 00100100 0010101 10 10101011 10010101 10101011 1011101 100 10111110 1110101 10111110 1111011 10 11101010 1011101 11101010 1110111 10111010 1110101 00101010 1010001 11111 11010111 01101111 101101 10011101 11011101 110111 11010101 11010001 111101 11001001 11110101 111101 11010101 10010011 111101 11010111 11110011 111111 11011111 11110101 011101 11110111 11110101 1101101 11111101 11011101 011101 11110111 11110101 101101 11010101 10110111 110101 101101001 11010111 110101 01110101 010010101 010101 11110001 10110101 1100101 11111 110100101 01010101 11010101 11010101 11010101 01011101 1110101 11010101 01010101 11010101 11111101 01011101 111111010 111111010 11010101 010100011 11010111 01011101 11010101 111101001 10011101 11010101 11111101 110100101 11011111 11110101 10010101 111000111 11011101 11010101 11111 11011101 11010101 011101 11011101 010011101 111101 111011001 110101001 110111 110110101 11010001 111101 110101001 11011101 111101 11011101 11110011 010101 110101001 01010101 110101 11011101 10110101 111111 10010101 11010101 1101010 110100101 11110101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 56
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 217
  • 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; to, and, tho', thou, in, so, i, his, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, it, tho', in, sylvia, i, and are repeated.

    The author used the same words it, if, corin at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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