This is an analysis of the poem Love That Doth Reign And Live that begins with:

Love that doth reign and live within my thought
And built his seat within my captive breast,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabXbXcbcbdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111110111 1101011101 1001010111 1011110101 1111111101 11011111010 01001011101 0101100101 1101100101 1001111111 0101111101 1111110111 1011111101 1001110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 618
  • Average number of words per stanza: 119
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, and, his are repeated.

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