This is an analysis of the poem Light Of Love that begins with:
Joy stayed with me a night --
Young and free and fair --...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab caca dadX cece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 11111 100101 1111 110101 110111 1101001 1111 110001 11100 1010101 0110 111111 11101 1101101 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 94
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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