This is an analysis of the poem Love that begins with:
LOVE bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back,
Guilty of dust and sin. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc XXXXXX XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011111 100111 1111010111 111100 1100110100 111101 11110100010 111101 1001010111 110111 1111110001 110111 1111110111 1101100 11111111010 1111010 1111111111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ' is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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