This is an analysis of the poem Love Elegy, To Henry that begins with:
Then thou hast learnt the secret of my soul,
Officious Friendship has its trust betrayed;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gaga ghgh igig jiji keke jcjc cccc ccccXbgbg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010011 1001010101 1111010101 11011100101 1111010101 1111110101 0101111101 1111010111 1111111101 11010111001 1011111101 0101010101 0110010101 1101011111 1111010101 1111010101 0101111111 1101010111 1111011111 11111111001 1101010101 1111110101 1101011101 1001011111 1111111101 1111001101 1101010101 1011010101 1101010101 101000011111 1101110101 1111111101 1101101101 1011011101 0111011111 1111010101 1101010011 1101010101 1101110101 1101011011 111011111 1111010101 1111110101 1111010101 1111111101 1101110101 1001111111 11110111001
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, i, by, far are repeated.
The author used the same word while at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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