This is an analysis of the poem The Argument Of His Book that begins with:
THE ARGUMENT OF HIS BOOK
I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers,... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabbbXbbccddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 0100001 11010101110 01010110110 1101111101 01001101101 1101011111 1101010100 1101011111 0101011100 1101110111 1101111101 1101010111 0101100101 1101111101 01011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 644
- Average number of words per stanza: 126
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; of, and, i are repeated.
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