This is an analysis of the poem For Seasonable Weather that begins with:

Lord! should the sunne, the clowds, the winde,
The ayre and seasons be... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XababbXb XcXcXXXX dXdXbaba XaXadXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101 011100 01011001 111101 110110101 110101 11001100 11101 10110111 111101 11110010 111101 11010111 110101 11010110 110110 0101111 1110101 11110111 110010 01010111 11010 11110101 1101001 11010111 011101 01110101 010101 01110111 010101 1111001 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or, we are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.

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