This is an analysis of the poem The Lover’s Morning Salute To His Mistress that begins with:

Sleep'st thou, or wak’st thou, fairest creature?
Rosy morn now lifts his eye,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccbddbbb efefffbggggb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111010 1011101 100101110 1010111 1001010 1101010 011111010101 0101010 010101 0100001 011111 10111010101 101001010 1001101 101001010 1011101 1111010 1101010 011011011011 111111 010101 111101 010101 1111110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 399
  • Average number of words per stanza: 72
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • 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; my is repeated.

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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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