This is an analysis of the poem My Own Heart Let Me More Have Pity On that begins with:
My own heart let me more have pity on; let
Me live to my sad self hereafter kind, ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11111111011 1101110101 10001101101 0011011101 1111011111 1101110011 1011111111 11101010101 1111101101 1101011101 1111011111 1111011111 1111110111011 101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 318
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; in, can, all are repeated.
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