This is an analysis of the poem He Remembers Forgotten Beauty that begins with:

When my arms wrap you round I press
My heart upon the loveliness... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbbbccdeedfabbaagghhff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111 110101000 11110001 010011111 010011101 01110101 11010011 111101001 01010110 10110011 01110101 110010100 11110011 11011011 111111001 10011101 011101010 11110101 11110101 110111111 11111111 11011011 11011101 10110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 856
  • Average number of words per stanza: 159
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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