This is an analysis of the poem Love that begins with:
Whilst tracing thy visage I sink in emotion,
For no other damsel so wond'rous I see;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaBa XaBa caBa Xaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110110010 11101011011 111110111010 11011011111 011010111110 11101001001 111110111010 11011011111 110010111110 11001001001 111110111010 11111011111 110110011010 01101011111 1100010111010 11001111011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, i, so are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word thee at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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