This is an analysis of the poem The Bad Season Makes The Poet Sad that begins with:
Dull to myself, and almost dead to these,
My many fresh and fragrant mistresses;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbccXbdddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011111101 1101110100 10110111001 1101010100 10010111101 110010101001 1011011101 11011110101 01110000100 110101011 1101011111 0101110101 1111111111 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 598
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; to is repeated.
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