This is an analysis of the poem Wert Thou But Ill—that I Might Show Thee that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abab cbcb XaXc XaXa Xdad
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 111111111 11011101 110101111 10110101 11110010010 1101 111101010 11 0111111010 0101010101 10010101010 10010100 01000101011 0100 011011010 1001 11011111010 0111 011111111 1101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • 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; i is repeated.

    The author used the same word wert at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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