This is an analysis of the poem The Sorrow of True Love that begins with:
The sorrow of true love is a great sorrow
And true love parting blackens a bright morrow:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01001100110 11110100110 11111011101 0111010111 01010101001 1101001110 1101100111 1111010011 0101010100100 0110011101 11010100111 0101000011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 518
- Average number of words per stanza: 97
- Amount of lines: 12
- 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.
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