This is an analysis of the poem St. Valentine's Day that begins with:

Let loose the sails of love and let them fill
With breezes sweet with tenderness to-day;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbacc deedff gaaghh ijjiff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101011101 0101010001 1101010101 0101100101 1111010101 1111111101 1011010101 1111010001 1101110101 0101010101 1101110111 1111010101 1101110111 1101010001 1011010111 1101011101 0101110101 1101110100 1101011101 0101010101 1001111100 1001110001 0101011101 1111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; not, his, love, of, and are repeated.

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