This is an analysis of the poem O Fools! Can You Not See that begins with:
O fools! can you not see a traffic nearer,
In my sweet lady's face, where nature showeth... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbbacc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101010 01110111010 11010111110 1011010 11011110 10110010110 11011110011 11010111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 324
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us is repeated).
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