This is an analysis of the poem Love's Alchemy that begins with:
Some that have deeper digg'd love's mine than I,
Say, where his centric happiness doth lie;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXcddccdd aaeeafffffdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11110101111 1101010011 1111111 1111111101 1111110100 111001 1111011001 11010101 01010101 110000110100 1101011101 1101010101 1111110111 1110110111 1100111 10110011011 0101100111 110111 1101010101 11001101 11110111 0111110001 1111010111 10111011001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 495
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, our, can are repeated.
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