This is an analysis of the poem To Live Merrily, And To Trust To Good Verses that begins with:
Now is the time for mirth,
Nor cheek or tongue be dumb;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaB Bcbc dXde fgfg aaaa hehe ijij keke jlXX kfkf ejlj jcjXXkgkg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111 111101 100101 010101 010101 111111 100111 110101 110111 10100110 11011 110101 100101 010101 101111 111111 110111 010101 011111 1100101 010111 010101 110111 011111 101001 010101 100111 011101 111101 110111 110111 111101 110111 1101001 110101 01100 101001 011101 111101 101001 011001 111101 010101 010101 100101 110001 110011 111110010 111101 01001 110101 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines come is repeated).
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