This is an analysis of the poem To A Youth Who Wooed A Woman Older Than Himself that begins with:
Friend, woo me not so earnestly.
Vain is thy prayer....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabaccbcbcbaba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic trimeter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11111100 1011 10011101 0101 11010101 11110101 11010101 11100111 11001101 01110101 11111100 0111 110010101 11001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 416
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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