This is an analysis of the poem A Footnote To A Famous Lyric that begins with:
TRUE love’s own talisman, which here
Shakespeare and Sidney failed to teach,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab baba cdcd efef dfdf gfgf eheh aeXeXdcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110011 11110101 01110100 101101 11000111 1111001 11111111 111101 110111011 11010111 111001001 010111 11111111 11010101 111011111 011101 11011101 10011111 01010101 111101 11110111 11010100 01111101 011101 11010101 01010101 11111101 110001 111010111 01000101 110100110 110101 1111111 11011101 11111111 010001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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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