This is an analysis of the poem Oh My Blacke Soule! Now Thou Art Summoned that begins with:

Oh my black Soule! Now thou art summoned
By sicknesse, deaths herald, and champion;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbXXXXXcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 111111110 1101101100 11101010111 10111101101 1101111101 1010100010 1111001010 10111101000 1101011111 1111111010 1111010101 1101011101 1110111101 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 638
  • Average number of words per stanza: 115
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou, with are repeated.

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