This is an analysis of the poem The City Of The Soul: Ii that begins with:
What shall we do, my soul, to please the King?
Seeing he hath no pleasure in the dance, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba XcdXcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111110101 1011110001 11010100100 0101111101 0101110111 1111111100 1101110110 1101001110 1101011101 0101110101 1001110101 1111010100 1001011111 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 312
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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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