This is an analysis of the poem On His Ladies Waking that begins with:

My lady woke upon a morning fair,
What time Apollo’s chariot takes the skies, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaaXba bXXcca
  • 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: 1101010101 11100100101 1101010001 0101011101 1111010111 1101001000 1111010111 1111010101 10101011101 110011010 1110001000 11110010101 1111110111 0111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 293
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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