This is an analysis of the poem To A Noble Friend In His Sickness that begins with:

Untimely Feaver, rude insulting guest,
How didst thou with such unharmonious heat... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc dede fgfg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101010101 1110110001 101001011 1111110101 1001110111 1101110110 1101010111 1111110111 1111110101 01010111001 1101010101 1011010101 1111110101 1101110001 1101111101 0111110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; what is repeated.

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