This is an analysis of the poem As Lords Their Labourers' Hire Delay that begins with:
As lords their labourers' hire delay,
Fate quits our toil with hopes to come, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1111001001 11110101 10110011 11011101 110111001 110101010 01010011 1100010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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