This is an analysis of the poem To Olivia that begins with:
I fear to love thee, Sweet, because
Love's the ambassador of loss; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaaabbbccXXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11011101 10010001 11011101 01110111 110010111 1110101 11110101 1110011 0111111 1111101 011101110 1110001010 11111111 11000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 491
- Average number of words per stanza: 85
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; not is repeated.
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