This is an analysis of the poem Serenade that begins with:
Ah, sweet, thou little knowest how
I wake and passionate watches keep; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcbXbddede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 111100101 11111111 10110011 11010111 11010111 11010111 11010101 11111101 01010011 11011101 111011010 011101010 01110101 110110110 01011001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 587
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; sleep is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.
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