This is an analysis of the poem For An Antique Lyre that begins with:
Still wanting you, perchance
How vainly love had waited,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cddc ceeX fccf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 1101110 1101010 110111011 110111 0101010 1111010 0111010001 110010 0101010 1110110 11010110001 111101 0101010 0101100 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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