This is an analysis of the poem The Faithless Lover that begins with:
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O LIFE, dear Life, in this fair house... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaa caXa dXXX Xbece efdf gege
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,5,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1 11110011 11010101 010100101 110101 11110101 01000111 01010101 011101 11011001 10011111 01011111 011101 1 11110011 111101110 01010101 0111010 11110101 10111101 11010011 110111 11110011 01010011 11010111 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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