This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet: Love And The Gentle that begins with:

Love and the gentle heart are one same thing,
Even as the wise man in his ditty saith....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbaaXbaXcdXcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1101011111 10101100101 1001101101 11001010100 1101011101 1011011100 0101111101 1101110100 11010100100 01010101101 10010000101 1100011101 1111100101 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 603
  • Average number of words per stanza: 112
  • 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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  • summary of Sonnet: Love And The Gentle;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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