This is an analysis of the poem Love And Humour that begins with:
WHEN first I saw you, in eclipse,
A veil about your head,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXcc dededd bfbfcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111001 010111 11011011 011000 11010111 11011110 11110101 011101 10110101 110111 110010101 01011111 11111101 101111 01110101 1000101 10110101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 18
- 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.
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- summary of Love And Humour;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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