This is an analysis of the poem A Lost Love that begins with:
I meet thy pensive, moonlight face;
Thy thrilling voice I hear;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dede cbcb fefe gege
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 110111 110101101 110111 11111111 110101 11110111 111001 11111011 111001 11111111 110101 11010110 011111 11110111 111101 11101101 111111 11010111 110101 11010111 1100101 11010101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and is repeated.
The author used the same word yet at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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