This is an analysis of the poem Upon Phillis Walking In A Morning Before Sun-Rising that begins with:

THE sluggish morne as yet undrest,
My Phillis brake from out her East; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabbccddXXXXeebbXcfgffXXXXgXhhiiXXXgXciijjiiggXXiikkaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 54,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011110 11010101 10110101 01010001 01110001 1011111 111101010 110001010 01110011 11010100 11010011 00110011 011101001 1010101 0110001 01110101 01011101 10110001 010010101 00010101 01011011 1111111 111111010 110100010 11011101 10011110 010111001 10011110 01011011 11110101 01011101 110100001 11001101 110101011 100101010 01110101 010011111 10010111 110100101 11010111 10110111 11110101 11110101 01101101 11010110 11010111 11110111 11101001 10011101 11010101 110101001 01011101 010101111 11010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1970
  • Average number of words per stanza: 344
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; their, her, his are repeated.

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