This is an analysis of the poem Punnung—after Cowley that begins with:
TO AQUILIUS.
Pun and Wit do both surprise;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xababcdcdcece XXXXfgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100 1111101 1100100 1110111 0011101 1011101 101111010 1011111 1011010 1110111 10111010 1010101 10100010 11111001 11001010 1010011 11101010 1011101 1011111 1111101 11110100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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