This is an analysis of the poem Bkiii:Xxviii For Neptune that begins with:
What better thing is there to do,
on Neptune’s festive day? Lyde, brisk now, bring up...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX bXca cdde eXeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 110010111111 10010101 101110010100 11101010 1110010100101 11010010 111110100101 11110010 10101010111 10110101 00101101010 11010111 100100101110 10101101 111011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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.
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