This is an analysis of the poem Lion And Lioness that begins with:
ONE night we were together, you and I,
And had unsown Assyria for a lair, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXcca ddccdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1110010111 11100100101 01010101101 1101010101 1111010101 11001010101 0111010101 10111100001 1101110001 01110110011 11110100101 11111011101 11011101001 1111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 316
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- 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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