This is an analysis of the poem Songs Set To Music: 19. Set By Mr. C. R. that begins with:
Phillis, give this humour over,
We too long have time abused;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac dcdc dcdc efef XcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 1111101 11111010 0010101 11101010 0110101 10101010 1111111 11111011 1011001 10111011 10011101 10101011 1011001 10110011 1010101 10111010 1111101 110111010 1011101 10101010 1111101 11101010 1011011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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