This is an analysis of the poem Lover's Quarrels that begins with:
JOIN hands, my dear, clasp long and close and fast,
Even this present we shall soon call past, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaba cXbc bbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111111 1000111111 1101010001 1011011111 1101110101 1100110101 1001010101 1011110111 11011110110 010110110110 11111001110 1110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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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