This is an analysis of the poem A Self Accuser that begins with:
Your mistress, that you follow whores, still taxeth
you ;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101110 1 1111110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 3
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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