This is an analysis of the poem Advice that begins with:
Cease, fond shepherd -- cease desiring
What you never must enjoy; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010100 1110101 10111010 1011101 10101010 1110101 10111010 1011111 1010101 1010101 1111111 1010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 395
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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