This is an analysis of the poem Love-Doubt that begins with:

Yearning upon the faint rose-curves that flit
About her child-sweet mouth and innocent cheek,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdcdcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1001011111 01011111001 1001100111 01111010111 1101111101 10011101011 0101111111 1100110100 1111110111 0111111111 0110111101 11010010101 1011011101 11010010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 318
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • 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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  • summary of Love-Doubt;
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