This is an analysis of the poem Love Declared that begins with:

I looked, she drooped, and neither spake, and cold,
We stood, how unlike all forecasted thought... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacdefXbg cfhijfchigbXeXX Xcdeedjc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,15,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111110111 1110111101 0101101111 1010110111 1001010111 1101101 1101 1011100111 1000010101 11111101010 1101010101 1111010111 1011101101 1111110101 0100011101 1001110 111 01111111111 0110010011 11011111110 1101111111 10110101010 01110101010 1101010101 11100101000 0101011101 0111111101 0101010101 1111111101 1011011101 01000101001 11110011101 10010110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 468
  • Average number of words per stanza: 85
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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