This is an analysis of the poem Love's Vision that begins with:

At night in each other's arms,
Content, overjoyed, resting deep deep down in the darkness,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXXX baXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101101 10101101110010 1010101101 1110111 1111001 111110011111110101 1001000100001010110100 10101010100101 001101011100110110100 1001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; whom, in are repeated.

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

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