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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