This is an analysis of the poem Astrophel And Stella: Xxxiii that begins with:
I might!--unhappy word--O me, I might,
And then would not, or could not, see my bliss;... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacacdedecc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101011111 1111111111 1110010101 1111011101 1110111011 1101011100 1111110101 1100110100 1011110101 1111101101 1101111111 1111110101 1101111101 1110110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 644
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; i, no, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
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