This is an analysis of the poem The Lover's Fate that begins with:
Hard is the fate of him who loves,
Yet dares not tell his trembling pain,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dede fcfc aeaeXefef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010111 111101001 10010101 100101001 11110111 11011111 010010101 010101001 11010001 01010111 01010101 11110001 11011101 11111101 110111001 01010101 101100101 01010001 11001101 110001101 10110101 11110101 01010101 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, not, own are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words but, oh, in, not are repeated.
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