This is an analysis of the poem Love that begins with:
Our love is not a fading earthly flower:
Its wingèd seed dropped down from Paradise,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbcbcdXdXee
- 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: 11010101010 011110101 11111111110 1100010101 0101010011 11010011101 1101110101 1111110101 1101011111 1110000101 1101110111 00010010100 1101011101 0111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 602
- Average number of words per stanza: 108
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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.
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