This is an analysis of the poem The Writers Postscript: Or A Frendly Caueat To The Second Shakerley Of Powles that begins with:
Slumbring I lay in melancholy bed,
Before the dawning of the sanguin light:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXbXabcXXcXaXXXXcXXdXXeccaaXXXdXXaaXeeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 41,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011010101 0101000101 1101110101 111010011 10010101001 01010010010 11110111011 1001110011 110111101 1011011001 1011110010 1110100101 1111111101 1101010001 100 0001100101 1110101101 1001110101 1111010001 1101010101 0101100010010 11000100111 111001111100 0101001101 1101000101 1100110101 1111011001001 0110010101 1101010001 10011001001 111111101 1101010101 1101011101 1101000101 1101011101 11001010101 0111011101 1000 10101010101 0101110001 101000100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1702
- Average number of words per stanza: 285
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, nor are repeated.
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