This is an analysis of the poem Weary In Well-Doing that begins with:
I would have gone; God bade me stay:
I would have worked; God bade me rest.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXa bcbcb aXaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11111111 11111111 11100101 111101000 1101 11111111 11111111 11111011 11010111 1101 11111101 11011111 11111000 11110111 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less 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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