This is an analysis of the poem Sweet Love, Sweet Thorn, When Lightly To My Heart that begins with:

Sweet love, sweet thorn, when lightly to my heart
I took your thrust, whereby I since am slain,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababacacbabadd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111110011 1111011111 1101000101 01011001111 1101010101 1101010101 11010101001 1111010101 1110111111 1111010101 1110010101 01010110101 1111110101 0111110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 606
  • Average number of words per stanza: 112
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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