This is an analysis of the poem Alas! So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace that begins with:
Alas! so all things now do hold their peace,
Heaven and earth disturbed in nothing.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababababcbcbdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111111111 101101010 0101011111 0101010111 1001011111 1111110111 1001110101 01010101111 0111100101 1111111101 1111010101 1101110011 1111110001 0111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 612
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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