This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Lv: Stillborn Love that begins with:
The hour which might have been yet might not be,
Which man's and woman's heart conceived and bore... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbXccdccd
- 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: 01011101110 1111010111 1101110111 10001001101 1001100111 0111111101 01011101001 010010101000 1111011101 01011100101 01110100111 11010111011 1100101101 1111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 631
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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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