This is an analysis of the poem The Retreat that begins with:
Pursue no more (my thoughts!) that false unkind,
You may assoon imprison the North-wind; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeeeaaff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0111111101 1110010011 1101010111 0101011101 1101010101 0011110101 1101110101 01011001111 1111011011 1011110011 1111101101 1101010101 1111011101 1111010101 1111110101 1111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 706
- Average number of words per stanza: 127
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; my is repeated.
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