This is an analysis of the poem Song: From Cynthia's Revels that begins with:

O, that joy so soon should waste!
Or so sweet a bliss ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbabccbddee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111 11101 101 111101 110110111010 0111110 10101010 01110 110111010 01011010 010110 111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 342
  • Average number of words per stanza: 66
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; so, i are repeated.

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