This is an analysis of the poem Come, Gentle God that begins with:
Come, gentle God of soft desire,
Come and possess my happy breast,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101010 11011101 110101110 11010101 11010101 11011101 11010011 11010111 11010011 01110101 11111101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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