This is an analysis of the poem Rebuking Juliet that begins with:

TO guard you from disaster,
Love-flags and standards flowing,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXb XcXc dede abab fgfg X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0110010 1111010 111110010 011011010 1001010 011100 111111011 0110100 1001011 1111101 111101 10110111 10011110 011101 111111110 101101001 11111110 111111 111010 1110001 01011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.

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