This is an analysis of the poem 'All Is Dross That Is Not Helena' that begins with:
What wistful lover has not mused upon
The waste of years that never knew his love!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba acca XXd eed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101011101 0100110101 1100110101 1111010100 1111010011 0111011101 11100010101 1111010101 1011011101 0101110110 0100010101 1100110100 0111010101 1100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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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