This is an analysis of the poem Love Malevolent that begins with:
I fain would love thee, but thy lips are fed
With poison-honey, hivéd in a skull;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba XccX defXedf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111111111 010101001 1111010100 110111001 1111010111 10010001011 1111011101 11101101110 1000010111 1101010101 1101110001 0101110111 1011011101 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- 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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