This is an analysis of the poem My Midnight Meditation that begins with:
Ill busi'd man! why should'st thou take such care
To lengthen out thy life's short calendar? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabb ccXbcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101111111 0101111100 1101001101 101111010 11010111011 1111110111 1100111111 0101001101 1011110100 100101111 1111011101 1101111100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
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