This is an analysis of the poem Fly Not So Swift, My Dear that begins with:
Fly not so swift, my dear, behold me dying,
If not a smiling glance for all my crying,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaabcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101110 01010111110 111011 010100111010 10010111010 111101 1111110101 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 342
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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