This is an analysis of the poem To The Virgins, Make Much Of Time that begins with:
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may:
Old Time is still a-flying; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dede fgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111111 1101010 101101101 0100010 0100101001 0101010 01000101 1101010 11011001 1111110 11010111 1101010 10111111 1111110 11011111 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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