This is an analysis of the poem Phillida And Coridon that begins with:

IN the merry month of May,
In a morn by break of day, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcXXXddeeccffgggghhbbaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0010101 0011101 1111011 1111001 111101 1001100 1011111 1111111 1110111 1111101 1111101 1111111 1001101 1111111 1101011 1110101 10100101 1010101 10100101 1111111 1110101 1101101 11101010 10101010 11000101 11010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 819
  • Average number of words per stanza: 158
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, said, he, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, he are repeated.

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