This is an analysis of the poem Love And Folly that begins with:
LOVE, who now deals to human hearts,
Such ill thrown, yet resistless darts, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaab ccdeedffgddg hhhcchccXffX ccbccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,12,12,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 11111001 110101010 11110101 10110101 11110 01010101 1100101001 110101010 110011111 11010101 01010 11011101 11010101 110111010 0100100111 11010101 01110 11110101 010100101 11010101 11010101 01010101 1101 11010101 11010101 11010101 010100001 01000101 1101 100100101 11111001 110100011 11110101 11111101 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 312
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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