This is an analysis of the poem When Orpheus Sweetly Did Complayne that begins with:
When Orpheus sweetly did complayne
Upon his lute with heavy strayne... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX aaaaaa XXbccb dddeed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010010 01010101 1010011 0101 10011 11010110 1100111001 01111101 11010111 0101 1111 01011101 01110111 01111111 01111101 0111 1101 01011001 01010001 10111111 01011001 1101 1111 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 27
- 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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