This is an analysis of the poem Cast Away Care that begins with:

Cast away care; he that loves sorrow
Lengthens not a day, nor can buy to-morrow ; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ccddE ffbbE
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111110 10101111010 1001111010 11110010010 10010010011 1011011111 100101011 10001001001 1001110110 10010011100 1001 110111110 10001110110 100111111 11010111111 1001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • 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; merrily, it are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it, too, not are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word c at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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