Devotion, Captain Tobias Hume's The First Part Of Airs, &C. by Anonymous: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Devotion, Captain Tobias Hume's The First Part Of Airs, &C. that begins with:

FAIN would I change that note
To which fond Love hath charm'd me ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccXdda efefdXbaab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111 0111111 110111 101111 110111 100011 1110 111101 101111 1111 111111 1111010 111101 1101010 110111 110100 11011 111111 111011 11011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 307
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; that, thee, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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