This is an analysis of the poem Idea Li: Calling To Mind Since First My Love Begun that begins with:
Calling to mind since first my love begun,
Th' incertain times oft varying in their course,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaaaacdcdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001111110 110011100011 1111010011 11101111001 1011100011 1011110101 0101011101 0111011101 11011101010 1011110111 10110111010 10011010101 11011110101 1111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 647
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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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More information about poems by Michael Drayton
- Analysis of Sonnet Xix: You Cannot Love
- Analysis of Sonnet Iv: Bright Star Of Beauty
- Analysis of Sonnet Lii: What? Dost Thou Mean
