This is an analysis of the poem In Commendation Of Musick that begins with:
When whispering straynes doe softly steale
With creeping passion through the hart,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabbXCd XaXXbXXCd eXeXXXccd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100101101 01010101 111100111 11011101 1111 0101 100 1101 01010100 110100111 10011001 110011110 1100011 11011 11001 100 1101 11010100 11111101 11010101 11111101 11010111 1111 1111 1111 1101 11011100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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.
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