This is an analysis of the poem Lusty Youth Should Us Ensue that begins with:

1 Lusty Youth should us ensue.
2 His merry heart shall sure all rue. ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eXeX XXee XdeX aaff ggffc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101 101011111 1110101111 1001111101 111111010001 111101001001 111011101011 11100101111 11110111 1111001001 11111010 110101010 1100100110 111100101110 111110101 111010010 10010101100 1011111000 11011010 11110110 111011101 11110110001 11001111010 11101010011 111010111 110111101 111111101 111011111 01
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; good is repeated.

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