This is an analysis of the poem I Vex Me Not With Brooding On The Years that begins with:

I vex me not with brooding on the years
That were ere I drew breath; why should I then ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdecde
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111010100 1011111111 0101011101 1101010101 1101110101 1111010101 1001110111 1001110011 10001111100 1100111001 1000110111 101100001 0011111111 11001011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 610
  • Average number of words per stanza: 107
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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 is repeated.

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