This is an analysis of the poem Intense Young Soul, That Takest Hearts By Storm that begins with:

Intense young soul, that takest hearts by storm,
And chills them into sorrow with a look!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbXacddcdbebe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 0111110111 1100010001 1111010111 11011111100 0101111101 1100010001 1001001111 1101001101 1101111001 1101011101 1111010101 0101010101 1111111111 110101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 626
  • Average number of words per stanza: 113
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

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