This is an analysis of the poem Advice To My Best Brother, Coll: Francis Lovelace. that begins with:
Frank, wil't live unhandsomely? trust not too far
Thy self to waving seas: for what thy star,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccddeefXeeXc aaggcchhffai cXeeffjj bbggXXXfhh cciiiihX hhggjj aakkbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,12,12,8,10,8,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111100001111 1101011111 1010110110 1001010011 1101111111 1011011111 111010111 0111101001 1001001101 1001000111 111101111 101010110 1001111111 1101011101 1011010111 1001111111 1011001101 1101110001 0011011101 1001010101 0110101001 1110010111 1101011011 11110110100 100101101 0101110101 1111010111 1011001110 1101011101 01001110110 1101010101 1011111101 0111110101 1101110111 1111110001 11100111101 0111001111 1101110001 1001110111 1101010111 0101010011 1101010101 1011010110 10010010101 1111010101 1101011011 0101011101 100110101 10011101110 100011100110 11011111010 11010001010 110111101 010011110 1011010011 1111011001 10001110101 0101111101 1110000101 00111000101 0101010001 1001101111 1111010111 101100101 1111110111 0101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 358
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; your, and, dream, his, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word as is repeated.
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