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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