The Passionate Printer To His Love by Henry Austin Dobson: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Passionate Printer To His Love that begins with:

Come live with me and be my Dear;
And till that happy bond shall lapse,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXb cbcb bcbX babX XdXX ededX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011011 11110111 11110010 11000101 1101111 11010111 11111101 01110101 01001111 01011101 10101011 111101100 11110101 11110001 11010011 10010100 10111011 111101001 01001101 0101100 10001111 111100101 11011001 11010101 10010000
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there's, in, your are repeated.

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