This is an analysis of the poem When The Lad For Longing Sighs that begins with:
When the lad for longing sighs,
Mute and dull of cheer and pale, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcdXdbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 1110111 0111111 1011101 1011101 0110101 0110101 1110111 1010111 1011101 1111101 1010001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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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