This is an analysis of the poem I Love, Alas! Yet Am Not Loved that begins with:
I love, alas! yet am not loved,
For cruel she to pity is not moved.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 1101010011 11010111100 10110101100 111101010100 10110011010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; she is repeated.
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