This is an analysis of the poem Love In A Mist that begins with:

Light love in a mist, by the midsummer moon misguided,
Scarce seen in the twilight garden if gloom insist,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaB babXabaB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001101101010 110011100101 11001101111010 11001 1100110101111 0111001010010 10110000110111 11011101101010 11001000101011 11110101101010 11001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 11
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; in, of are repeated.

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