This is an analysis of the poem A Valediction: Of Weeping that begins with:
Let me pour forth
My tears before thy face, whil'st I stay here, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaccbbbdcXdbbeXefbXfggXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 1101111111 1111011111 1101011101 1110 1001 1011111001 1011111101 11111101110101 1011 0101110111 110101110 1101111101 1111 1111 0111110101 1111011101 01110101110011 1111 1111011011 1111011110 0101101111 1101 0101 0111110100 1111110101 11110101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1027
- Average number of words per stanza: 196
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, of are repeated.
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