This is an analysis of the poem Edward that begins with:
HEAVY is my trembling heart, mine own love, my dearest,
Heavy as the hearts whose love is poured in vain; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabcbC dadaacaC eaeafcfc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011001111110 10101110101 10111111100 1011110101 101010101010110 1010101110101 11011101010 11100111101 1001011111010 10101011101 1101011111110 1101011101 11101011101110 1110101011101 11011101110 11100111101 1101110101110 1111010111 1101011101110 1101101101 111010101001010 1000101110111 11011111110 110111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 423
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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