This is an analysis of the poem On Being Asked What Was The 'Origin Of Love' that begins with:
The 'Origin of Love!'--Ah why
That cruel question ask of me,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa baba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010001011 11010101 111101011 11011101 11110101 1110001101 11010101 11011100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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