This is an analysis of the poem To A Nun that begins with:
Please God, forsake your water and dry bread,
And fling the bitter cress you eat aside....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXccccbbbbddeebbff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101110111 1101011101 11110001011101 0100101 111010101 10011110101 11110101010 11010101010 11011011110 010100001010 1001110111 1001010100 0111011100 0111010101 0101011101 1101110111 11010010101 0111110101 1101110101 1011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 887
- Average number of words per stanza: 156
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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