This is an analysis of the poem Love (Iii) 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 dedeee fgfghh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111011111 100111 1111010111 011100 1100110100 011101 0111010001 111101 1001010111 110111 1111110001 110111 1111110111 110101 1111111101 111101 1111111111 110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; i is repeated.

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

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