This is an analysis of the poem Second Love that begins with:
The ne'er-forgetting! him who loves but once!
Romance may laud, but Cupid dubs for dunce;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaaa bcbcdd eebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 0101011111 0111110111 1111110101 1111110101 110111111011 1111010100 11010101010 10111110101 11001101010 0101011111 1101111101 11110100001 110111101 1111100011 11110010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; but, him are repeated.
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