This is an analysis of the poem To A Moralist that begins with:

Are the sports of our youth so displeasing?
Is love but the folly you say?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaba cXcb dede fgfg heheXcece
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010111100 01101011 1000010110 11101001 11101101 111011010 101001011 101001010 01111011 010110010 0101101 1111010010 10101001 11001111 101001101 101011011 001101011 001101111 01101101 111001011 01001101 001001011 11111001 111101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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