This is an analysis of the poem I Sung Sometimes that begins with:
I sung sometimes my thoughts’ and fancy's pleasure,
Where then I list, or time serv’d best and leisure,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111010 11111111110 1100011 01011101011 1111010 11111101010 1111010 11111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 338
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, me, drank, her are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, her are repeated).
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