This is an analysis of the poem Ask, Is Love Divine that begins with:
Ask, is Love divine,
Voices all are, ay.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101 10111 10101 10101 11110 101 10111 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no is repeated.
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