This is an analysis of the poem Set Me Whereas The Sun Doth Parch The Green that begins with:
Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green
Or where his beams do not dissolve the ice, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbbbbcdcdXX
- 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: 1101011101 1101110101 01001110111 0101010111 1101110101 0101100101 0101111100 0101111111 11010011101 0111100101 11110110011 1101010110 0010110001 1011111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 612
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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