This is an analysis of the poem To His Mistress that begins with:

There comes an end to summer,
To spring showers and hoar rime;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXabcb dXdbecXc XfXfeXab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010 00110111 0100110 111101 1111110 111111 1111010 111011 1111010 010111 1111110 111111 1111010 111101 0101010 111111 1111100 111111 0101110 111111 1001110 011100 1111010 111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • 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; to, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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