This is an analysis of the poem Welcome, Dear Heart, And A Most Kind Good-Morrow that begins with:

Welcome, dear Heart, and a most kind good-morrow;
The day is gloomy, but our looks shall shine:— ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabcbcdedeacacefefghgh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10111011010 0101011111 101110111111 1100010111 1111010111 0101110011 1101110101 0100111111 1111010101 11011101110 1101000101 11110001010 1101111101 1101010001 1110010101 11111010001 1101011101 0101010100 1111011101 1111110111 1101011111 10110101010 0111010011 11110101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1110
  • Average number of words per stanza: 196
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; for is repeated.

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