This is an analysis of the poem The Lover’s Almanac that begins with:
Oh, hearts that wear the willow,
To you I tell my woe,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcdXdXeceafXfgeeegbXb chehcieieeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011 011111 111001000 111111 1111010 111101 1111110 011101 0101111 1111001 0101010 111111 1110011 110101 1011110 111001 1111110 110101 1101011 110011 0101111 011111 1111011 111101 1111110 111101 1101001 111101 1111110 110101 1101011 111011 1100011 110111 1111010 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 496
- Average number of words per stanza: 99
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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