This is an analysis of the poem To Sir Henry Goodyere that begins with:

WHO makes the last a pattern for next year,
Turns no new leaf, but still the same things reads ;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dede Xfgf dhdh efef eiei gege abab fafa jkjk lala
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010111 1111110111 1111011111 1101110101 0101111010 1101111101 1111101111 1011010101 11110010101 1111001101 10110101111 1111110101 010111110 0101100101 1111110100 0101111001 0111010111 1110111111 1111001110 0101010011 1101011001 0101010101 1111111111 1101011101 0001011100 1101011101 1101110101 1111010111 111101011010 0001100101 11100101110 1101110111 0111001101 11101011111 1101110001 11111101110 1101010111 0111111111 1011011111 1101110101 1111010101 1101011111 1011001101 1101110111 1111111101 1011111111 1011111101 1101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; things, her, and, you, she, him are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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