This is an analysis of the poem Love&Mdash;Thou Art High that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1000110 110110 10010 11110 10100010000 10001001110 1000110 110110 1011 010100 10110010100 11001101 10001100 0100010 10001000100010 100110000010 11110 10000
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • 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 author used the same word love at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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