This is an analysis of the poem Wizard's Love (Latter Manuscript Version) that begins with:

O perfect love, unhoped-for, past despair!
I had not thought to find...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacbdecbeadbfac cfggfXXhheiajeiXjXiXbfbfdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,26,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10111001101 111101 1101010111 1111010011 1110010101 111101 1101110011 0111011101 1101110111 1111010100 1001111101 1111000101 011101 11000111101 1011010111 1011011001 1101010101 1111011101 111111 1001010101 1011101001 0100010100 011100110 1100010111 110101 1011010101 01010100 0101110101 1111010101 01010001111 1101 0111110100 11001110101 0100110000100 1100101 1111111101 101101 111100001 010001 110101 1011000111 1111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 788
  • Average number of words per stanza: 138
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; what, to, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.

    The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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