This is an analysis of the poem My Lady's Tears, John Dowland's Third And Last Book Of Songs Or Airs that begins with:
I SAW my Lady weep,
And Sorrow proud to be advanced so ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedeff cfXfbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 110100011 0111111001 111101 11010111111 1111000101 101111 1101100101 1001110101 110101 1110110101 1111111111 110111 0111110101 0101110101 110101 1110010001 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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