This is an analysis of the poem Go, Songs, For Ended Is Our Brief, Sweet Play that begins with:

Go, songs, for ended is our brief, sweet play;
Go, children of swift joy and tardy sorrow: ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcd adcbXabad
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111001111 11001111010 1111111101 111011110011 11100010101 11111101111 1011111101 1101110010 1111110111 10111111110 1011111101 10111111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, sweet, ye, your are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words go, and, tell are repeated.

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

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  • central theme;
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