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

Beloved, those who moan of love's brief day
Shall find but little grace with me, I guess,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabXa cdcdee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 0101110111 1111010111 1111010100 0110110101 0101010111 1101110001 11111101000 1100111101 1011010111 1110010111 1101011101 1100011101 100101100101 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 312
  • Average number of words per stanza: 57
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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