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
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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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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