This is an analysis of the poem To My Friend Mr. John Fletcher, Upon His Faithful Sheperdess that begins with:
I know too well, that, no more than the man,
That travels through the burning desarts, can,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccaaaaccddeeffccgghhddhhbbddiihhffbbhXjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111111101 1101010101 1101000101 11000111001 0011010111 11010111111 1001010101 1101011111 1111111111 0111011111 1101111101 0101010101 1101010101 0101000101 1101110101 1111110101 0101101111 0011010101 1100101101 110111101 1011111101 1111100101 1101011111 1111110111 0101010011 1100110111 1101111101 1101000101 1011011101 1111010101 1110010011 1111010001 1001110011 1101011101 11110111001 0101010101 1101110101 1111010011 0111011101 0101010111 11000010111 0101111101 0111010011 1100110100 0101110101 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2006
- Average number of words per stanza: 382
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, to, not are repeated.
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