This is an analysis of the poem What Weeping, Or What Dewfall, that begins with:
What weeping, or what dewfall,
Whose then were those tears, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabccbddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110 11011 101111 1011001 1101110 011101 0010111 1001110 1011111 110101 010101 01101011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 383
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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