This is an analysis of the poem Love Elegy, To Laura that begins with:
Too heedless friend, why thus augment the flame
That glows resistless in my beating breast?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cccc XdXd XeXe cece cfcf XdXX Xafa egeg bhbhXfdfd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 1101110101 1110001101 1011010101 1111010101 11011110101 1101010101 11010001001 11001110101 1110101111100 1001110101 1111001101 1101010011 11110111010 1101010101 01011101110 11110111001 1101110101 11010100101 0101101101 0101000101 11010010101 1111010101 0101010111 11010100111 110110111100 11011010101 1001010111 11110101110 11010101100 0101011101 1011111101 10110010101 1011010101 1100011101 1111010101 1101010011 1101010101 0101010101 11100011101 1111001101 1011010101 0111000101 1011111111 1101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 44
- 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; why is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words why, the are repeated.
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