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: ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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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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