This is an analysis of the poem Ye Old Mule that begins with:
Ye old mule that think yourself so fair,
Leave off with craft your beauty to repair,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXB XabBXaabbaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111011 1101110001 1001011010 111011100110 1101111110 111 011011011 1011110111 10011001010 111 1111010101 1101011001 11110100110 011111110010 0100110111 111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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