This is an analysis of the poem On An Old Deluded Suitor that begins with:

See sad deluded love, in years too late,
With tears desponding o'er the tomb of fate, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccbbddeeffgghhccccccff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101010011 01100100101 1101010101 1001010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101011101 1101011001 1111010101 0111010101 1111011101 1101010101 1001010101 0100110001 110111111 0101010101 1010010101 0101000101 1101010101 101110111 1111010111 0111010111 1101010111 11010100101 11111100101 0101011101 0101110101 0101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1266
  • Average number of words per stanza: 229
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

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