This is an analysis of the poem As Celia With Her Sparrow Playd that begins with:

As Celia with her Sparrow playd
She took a glass unseen...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXabcddcXaeeafgbbgXaaXafXhhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11000101 110101 0111 111 111100 10111101 111101 111 0111 111101 01110101 010110 1111 1011 110111 1111101 10101 0111 1101 111111 110100101 1100101 1101 1110 110101 11011101 0101010 1101 0101 111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 718
  • Average number of words per stanza: 139
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; such is repeated.

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