This is an analysis of the poem Weep Not Too Much that begins with:
Weep not too much, my darling;
Sigh not too oft for me;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXdedXdXdabXX adadfgdg hbdbXibi hjcjabgb cgagXiXi gbcbXeXe gbgbfXbXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,8,8,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110 111111 1101010 110111 1101010 011101 11110101 110111 1101110 011101 1111010 111101 1111110 110000 01110101 111111 1101010 010111 1111010 010101 1101110 110101 10110101 1101001 0011010 011101 0101100 0101001 0111100 010101 01000101 010101 1101010 110101 0111010 110011 1111010 011101 01001101 111101 1111010 010101 1101010 00101001 1101010 011101 110101001 110101 0011010 110101 1101010 110101 1111100 111101 11011101 110101 1111010 1110001 1101010 111011 1111010 0101010 11110101 0101010 1
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; not, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, is, drink are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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