This is an analysis of the poem The Way Of A Maid that begins with:
The lover whose soul shaken is
In some decuman billow of bliss,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccaaddeeccffccXcXXaabbbbgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011100 011001001 110100101 101101001 11111101 11011111 110101000 010011101 00110101 10100111 0101101001 100100001 01111001 110100111 11110101 01011100 10010110 11010001 10010010 11110100 11010101 110100101 10110011 01001100 01010101 11101100 111101011 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 954
- Average number of words per stanza: 172
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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