This is an analysis of the poem The Good That I Would I Do Not that begins with:
I would, but cannot sing,
Guilt has untuned my voice;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bbbb cccc dede cfcf dbdb ghgh fXfX ieie
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 1110011 010110001 110111 110101 111101 11011111 111101 111101 110101 01011101 110101 111101 111101 11001101 011111 111101 011100 11110101 110101 111101 111100 11110101 111101 100111 111101 100100100 111101 110101 1101010 11110100 111101 111111 011110 10000111 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less 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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