This is an analysis of the poem Song: Fair Delia While Each Sighing Swain that begins with:
Fair Delia while each sighing swain
Whose heart your charms adores,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcacabdbdaeae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 111101 10010101 1100101 110100001 0101001 11010101 010001 11011101 110101 11110101 111101 01010101 110001 10010101 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 492
- Average number of words per stanza: 85
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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