This is an analysis of the poem An Epitaph Upon A Child that begins with:

Virgins promised when I died,
That they would each primrose-tide... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010111 1111111 1011101 1010111 1010111 1111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 6
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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