This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Liv: Love's Fatality that begins with:
Sweet Love,—but oh! most dread Desire of Love
Life-thwarted. Linked in gyves I saw them stand,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacddccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11111101001 11010101101 1100110101 1111101101 111100101011 101011010011 10110111011 00101011101 1001110101 1101111101 1101110111 11110010111 10110111011 11011010100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 661
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; love is repeated.
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