This is an analysis of the poem Idea Xxxvii: Dear, Why Should You Command Me To My Rest that begins with:
Dear, why should you command me to my rest
When now the night doth summon all to sleep?... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcacadedeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111011011 1101110101 1001100101 1101010101 1101110101 1101101101 0101010101 1101100111 11111100101 1111011101 1101000111 1111110101 1111010101 0111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 624
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, thou are repeated.
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