This is an analysis of the poem Love And Law that begins with:
True Love is founded in rocks of Remembrance
In stones of Forbearance and mortar of pain. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaXbaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010010010 01001011001 010110010110 11101011111 10110110010 11001011101 111010111010 01001111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, not are repeated.
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