This is an analysis of the poem Modern Love I: By This He Knew She Wept that begins with:
By this he knew she wept with waking eyes:
That, at his hand's light quiver by her head,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacddcaeeafggf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011110101 1101110101 0111111101 0100000101 1101110101 1001000111 1110110101 0101011111 0101010011 1011010111 1101010101 01001011110 1101110011 1101001101 0111010101 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 715
- Average number of words per stanza: 125
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.
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