This is an analysis of the poem An Attempt At The Manner Of Waller that begins with:
Did not thy reason, and thy sense,
With most persuasive eloquence,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeeff eeggcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110111 01010100 011101001 11110111 11010110 10101111 111111010 11011111 01010011 11000111 11011101 001100111 10010111 110100011 0111101 11111111 1001001111 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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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