This is an analysis of the poem Nay, Tell Me Not, Dear that begins with:
Nay, tell me not, dear, that the goblet drowns
One charm of feeling, one fond regret; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdaadDEDE fgfgaahhhhDEDE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110101 110101101 0110101101 111100111 1101 01001 1101101111 01011 01011 11101011011 1101101111 110100101 1110100101 011101111 11101001010 111100101 11001001010 110100101 1001 11001 0110110111 11101 01011 1100101111 1101101111 110100101 1110100101 011101111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 528
- Average number of words per stanza: 98
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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