This is an analysis of the poem Dedication To His Love that begins with:

SWEETEST, in desperate hours
Of clouds and lightning and rain,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdedbdbfXXXeXaXaghgheEXiXijfjfeE
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010010 0111011 111010010 11011101 111111011 1011011 110011011 1110001 111111001011110 10010011 1001011 101111111 1111011 1010011011 11001001 0110010110 11111001 111111001011110 0110110100 11101101 1111101100 001011001 111110110 11011101 0111111010 111011101 1111110010 11110 100111100 1111101 101011110 00101110 10111111 11001111 11011011 110001011 1111110010 11110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1419
  • Average number of words per stanza: 267
  • Amount of lines: 38
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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, you, your, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.

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