This is an analysis of the poem Fatima that begins with:

O LOVE, Love, Love! O withering might!
O sun, that from thy noonday height ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbb ccccdXd eeeefXf ffffggg hhXhaaa Xiiijjj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111001 11101101 10011111 10111111 11001101 11110111 11110101 111101010 010101010 110101010 110101010 11011111 11010101 01110001 11111101 01111111 01010101 01001101 11110111 01111111 11111101 01110111 11010001 11101101 01110111 01111101 11000101 11010101 011101010 100101010 010101110 011101010 110010101 11110101 10010001 11110100 11000101 11000101 10011101 10111001 11110101 11010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o, love, i, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, lo, i are repeated.

    The author used the same word last at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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