This is an analysis of the poem To Phillis, To Love And Live With Him that begins with:

TO PHILLIS, TO LOVE AND LIVE WITH HIM
Live, live with me, and thou shalt see... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aabbbbccddeebbcXaXXfggfXffeeeehheeXXhhbbaabbaaddiiccggaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,56,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010011101 11011111 01010111 11010101 11111111 01111011 01010101 11010101 11011001 11011001 10010101 01011011 11111111 01010111 0101010 11010101 01011100 11111111 11111100 11111100 01101100 01110111 11011011 11110101 01011100 11011101 11000111 11101001 11011100 11001101 01010101 11111101 01010111 11011101 10010001 01010111 01110100 01010101 11111101 10011111 01010001 010011111 11011111 01011101 010010001 00010110 11010111 11110101 1101111 01111111 11010101 11110101 11010111 01010111 10011101 11111110 01111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1046
  • Average number of words per stanza: 189
  • Amount of lines: 57
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; live, thy, and, this are repeated.

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