This is an analysis of the poem Modern Love Xlv: It Is The Season that begins with:

It is the season of the sweet wild rose,
My Lady's emblem in the heart of me! ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXabccbaddaeXae
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0001000111 1101000101 1101111000 1011010111 11110101101 11010110101 0110011101 1101010101 1101010001 10010101111 1101110101 11010101001 1110011111 0100110100 0101010011 1101011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 688
  • Average number of words per stanza: 130
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; of, i, her, and are repeated.

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