This is an analysis of the poem Amoretti Lxxv: One Day I Wrote Her Name that begins with:
One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcbXcdXdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111010101 110111001 0111000101 1101111101 1010111010110 0101100100 1111110001 111101110000 1010111010101 0101111111 1111011100 10010111001 1101110101 11111101100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 632
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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.
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