This is an analysis of the poem Belated Love that begins with:
Ah, woe is me, for Love hath lain asleep,
Hath lain too long in some Circean close—...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa XbbX cdd cee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101111101 111101101 1101010101 1101011101 1100110100 1100011111 1101110101 1101011000 1111011100 0101010111 1010110101 1111011111 1001010111 0111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
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