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

Young Love sat in a rosy bower,
Towards the close of a summer day;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccb bdbdeed dfdfddf ghXheeX didieei egegjjg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111001010 010100101 10101010 1101111 1001 1001 10011101 11101101 100111110 1001011101 100100110 1001 1001 101111010 10010101 100100101 10110111 10010101 1111 001001 100110101 11110101 100100101 10011101 01011111 1001 1011 100111001 110101101 110101101 11110101 10011101 0011 1001 101100101 101101110 110100101 101100111 11010101 1001 1001 1111001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.

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