This is an analysis of the poem Via Amoris that begins with:

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IT is not Love, this beautiful unrest,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbccddddeeffaXbb X gghhhhgg X aabbdd bbddbb hhbbii X hhdXcchX a bbccggbbdXdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,16,1,8,1,6,6,6,1,8,1,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1 0011010001 01001010111 11000101001 1011111111 00110011111 1101011111 0011111101 1111111101 00011001001 0111010100 1111111111 1101000101 1101011111 11110110100 1111101101 1001111101 1 0001010101 0101101101 010111011 00101000101 1111011111 1100111101 1011110011 0101010101 1 0001111101 1111100101 0111111100 11010010101 010100100110 010000011010 1101010101 1101011111 1001010101 1001010100 10010111001 0101010001 1101110101 01010100011 1011010101 1101010111 1101111111 1011111111 1 10110011011 11010111001 1011111101 1001110111 11110100111 1111011111 0111010111 1101010110 1 1001111101 11110011001 1111000101 1101110001 0101110111 1101110101 11001110101 1011111101 01001000101 1101011000 1111101111 0100010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 67
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; this, not, and, i, of, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, and, the, washed are repeated.

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