This is an analysis of the poem An Epitaph For A Husbandman that begins with:
He who would start and rise
Before the crowing cocks, --... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacacadad efef gcgc ahah ijij
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 010101 111101 0101 110101 110101 110101 1101 111101 011101 010011 0101 101111 11001010 010111 10010 011101 010111 011101 1101 101101 110001 1111001 1011 011101 100101 100111 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.
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