This is an analysis of the poem On Reading Shakepeare's Sonnets that begins with:
THY verse is like a cool and shady well
Lying a-dream within some moss-walled close ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXa cdXc eXbe dfdfXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011101 1001011111 10010111001 0111010111 1110011101 1101101101 1101111110 1111100011 10010010111 111110100 1100110100 0001000111 11110000101 1101010101 11010100001 1101110101 1110000101 10101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 844
- Average number of words per stanza: 143
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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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