This is an analysis of the poem Song that begins with:
Oh love! that stronger art than Wine,
Pleasing Delusion, Witchery divine,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaa ccddeeX eeff eeXXgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 1001010001 10010111 01111111 11101011 1010001 11110111 11010101 10010101 11010101 11010101 10011001 11011101 11010101 11110101 11010111 1110101 110010101 1010001 10110101 11010101 010101010 10011101 11010001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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, of are repeated.
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