This is an analysis of the poem Too Soon So Fair, Fair Lilies that begins with:
TOO soon so fair, fair lilies;
To bloom is then to wane;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabba Xcddc efggf eXhhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110 010101 010111 010100 110110101 1111110 011101 011101 010101 11110101 1111110 110111 111101 110111 11010101 1111110 11011110 110101 101101 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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, summer are repeated.
The author used the same word too at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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