This is an analysis of the poem Complaint Of A Lover That Defied Love that begins with:

WHEN Summer took in hand the winter to assail,
With force of might, and virtue great, his stormy blasts to quail :... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXXccddcXeeccccXcffcceecXbgXXXXhXeegbiiaahhaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 110101010001 01011101010101 11111010101 110011100110101 11110111101 100111011101011 1011010100111 111101011101001 101101010101 101010001010101 111111110111 11110101110101 11111010101 11111101110001 110101100101 11011101110101 111101110101 10111111111101 111111111001011 11011001110111 10111011101 11010111011111 11110101010101 01010011111101 111101101101 11011101110101 110101110111 11011110110111 111101010101 1111101110101 111110111101 1110111111001 11101111011010 010011010101100 1001101111011 1110101011100010 010011110101 11101111110101 111101110111 11111101110101 11111111011 11111001010101 11111110101 1101111011110 11110101111 11010101011101 010110101101 11011011001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2690
  • Average number of words per stanza: 523
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, my, i, how, their, they, what, ', thy, that, more, ye are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines more is repeated).

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