This is an analysis of the poem The Loiterer that begins with:
When Youth, led on by love and folly, strays,
Kissing sweet eyes beyond the allotted hour...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbccXcXdadXede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111101 101101001010 1111011101 01010101010 1101011101 1101000101 1101000101 1101100101 1111011101 0101011101 10110011101 11110011111 1101010111 1101011001 11110101001 0101000111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 697
- Average number of words per stanza: 127
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, thou are repeated.
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