This is an analysis of the poem The Love Of Loves that begins with:

I Have not seen her face, and yet
She is more sweet than any thing... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab caca dede fdfd ghghXgfgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110111 10111101 01111100 11011101 01111101 11010101 10010100 11 11110111 10111101 11011111 01010101 01111100 11011100 10010100 11 10111101 01111101 11011010 11111111 01111111 01010100 11111101 11
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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