This is an analysis of the poem Quickness that begins with:
False life, a foil and no more, when
Wilt thou be gone?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc cdcd eXeX fcfc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 1101 11010011 11110111 11011101 1101 01100111 01110001 10010101 0101 11111101 11111111 11010111 1100 11111101 01010100 11010111 0101 11011101 01011111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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