This is an analysis of the poem Love's Substitute that begins with:
This love, that dares not warm before its flame
Our yearning hands, or from its tempting tree ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXbaba cdXcdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111110101 1101100101 1111011111 1101010100 1101001111 11010101111 1101111000 1101010101 11100011101 1111010001 11011001111 11010111101 1101110101 101101001100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 393
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Love's Substitute;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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