This is an analysis of the poem When Cloris Heard that begins with:
When Cloris heard of her Amyntas dying,
She grieved then for her unkind denying:... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbbXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010010010 1111001010 11011001100 1111111101 111001 111110 11111101 11100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 282
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; die, i are repeated.
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