This is an analysis of the poem English May that begins with:
WOULD God your health were as this month of May
Should be, were this not England,—and your face ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaccaXddaad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111010101 1000110111 0101010111 1101010111 11010010101 1111010101 0101110101 11101101101 0011010100 1111110101 1111011101 01001100111 11011110111 0100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 640
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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