This is an analysis of the poem I Would To Heaven That I Were So Much Clay that begins with:
I would to heaven that I were so much clay,
As I am blood, bone, marrow, passion, feeling - ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abababcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ottava rima
- Metre: 11010110111 11111101010 0111010101 11010111010 1011010001 11110101010 110100010010 11111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 357
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; i is repeated.
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