This is an analysis of the poem Character Of Charles Brown that begins with:

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He is to weet a melancholy carle:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXbbcbcc Xdadaababb Xefeffgfgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 10010101010 1001010101 1101010101 0101010101 0101000101 1001111001 1111011101 1111010101 111111110101 1 1111111111 1111111111 1101110101 11001110101 11011011111 11011000101 1101010101 1011011111 111111110001 1 0101001111 1001011101 1111011101 1111010111 11001011101 101111101 100110111 111000101 1111011100011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 392
  • Average number of words per stanza: 76
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; he is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, ne, nor are repeated.

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