This is an analysis of the poem Rime 34 that begins with:

Love, do you know why your fair mother gave you
These arrows to your hands, and bound your eyes?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXXabccXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 11111111011 1100111111 111101111 01001101010 1101111101 01010011010 11001111010 110100101010 1011101101 1110011011 1011110111 1111101101 0010111111 1001011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 604
  • Average number of words per stanza: 121
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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  • summary of Rime 34;
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  • history of its creation;
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