This is an analysis of the poem The Unfortunate Lover that begins with:
Alas, how pleasant are their dayes
With whom the Infant Love yet playes!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbcc ddeeXXaa ddffgghh ggiiffaa ffjjbXkk XheeeXdd hhiiddXb XbdXffdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101110 010101110 10111111 11011111 11111111 110000101 11101101 01010011 10010101 11010111 11110101 11111101 11010101 01010101 11110101 0010010 01111101 11011101 10010111 11010111 11111111 1101011 11010101 11010001 11000110 010100100 01010101 11010101 01001101 101001101 100110101 01000101 11110111 11110001 11110111 01010101 11110111 1101110 1100101 11000111 11110101 01010001 10111101 11010101 11010111 01010100 11010111 11101101 111101111 10010011 10010111 11000101 01101111 100111001 11110101 00111101 00010100 11010101 11100101 1010111 11010011 110011001 11010101 0011001010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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