This is an analysis of the poem Songs From The Beggar’s Opera: Air X-“thomas, I Cannot' that begins with:
Polly. I like a ship in storms was tossed,
Yet afraid to put into land,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbbcddc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011010111 10101001 110010101 1100101 0111 1101 1101010 1101 1111 11001010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 495
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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