Poem Analysis of A Paranaeticall, Or Advisive Verseto His Friend, Mr John Wicks by Robert Herrick for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem A Paranaeticall, Or Advisive Verseto His Friend, Mr John Wicks that begins with:

Is this a life, to break thy sleep,
To rise as soon as day doth peep?... full text

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Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeefXffgghhiiijjffiiffhhiiddkkee
Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 00010111 01111111 010110111 11111011 11001101 111101100 11010111 01010011 11010111 11011101 01111101 01111000 01011111 11010101 00011001 11011111 11110111 10111101 11110111 11011111 01110101 11011001 11110100 110101011 1101010 11111111 10011101 11110111 11010101 11110111 11111111 11010101 11110111 110110001 110111101 11111111 11111111 10010001 01110001
Amount of stanzas: 1
Average number of symbols per stanza: 1400
Average number of words per stanza: 272
Amount of lines: 39
Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, to, we, and, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.

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