This is an analysis of the poem Lines To W. L. While He Sang A Song To Purcell's Music that begins with:
While my young cheek retains its healthful hues,
And I have many friends who hold me dear;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacddcefefef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111010101 1111011111 110111101 1100111111 11000011101 1111000101 1110000101 1101011100 1011110111 0101011111 0101101101 1011111101 1111010101 1001111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 601
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- 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; i, my are repeated.
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