This is an analysis of the poem Songs From The Beggar’s Opera: Air Xxvii-“green Sleeves” that begins with:
Since laws were made, for every degree,
To curb vice in others, as well as me,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXAbbbA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110001 0110101111 1101110100 01101 110111101 101111001 110111001 01101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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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