This is an analysis of the poem Upon The Sudden Restraint Of The Earl Of Somerset, Then Falling From Favour that begins with:
Dazled thus with height of place,
Whilst our Hopes our wits Beguile,... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cece fgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1010101 1111101 1110101 1010101 1110101 1100111 1011101 1010111 1010011 10101001 1000101 1110101 1110111 1111101 100101 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; be is repeated.
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