This is an analysis of the poem Icarus, Robert Jones's Second Book Of Songs And Airs that begins with:

LOVE wing'd my Hopes and taught me how to fly
Far from base earth, but not to mount too high: ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeeaa ffgghh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1111111101 1011110111 1110 10010 10101 10100101111101 1111101111 10001010111 1110 10110 10111 111101010110111 1111110101 11011101001 111 111 10101 01010101111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • central theme;
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