This is an analysis of the poem To Promise Is One Thing To Keep It, Another that begins with:
JOHN courts Perrette; but all in vain;
Love's sweetest oaths, and tears, and sighs...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXdXXefXgbgbhchcdedebbiihhhheejjheehkkaaffhhhhXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 52,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101101 11011111 11010101 01010101 100101010 101101010 01110101 01010101 10010110 010011011 10100111011 10110111100 11011001 010101010 01010101 010101010 11110101 111101010 01110100 110111010 01010101 01010101 11010101 10110101 01011111 111100101 11111101 11110101 11011111 11010101 10110101 11010101 001100010 010111010 01010111 011100101 10100101 11010101 10010101 11111101 110011010 110100010 11100111 10010101 10011101 101110111 101110001 101010101 101010001 100001111 101110111 1001110100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1955
- Average number of words per stanza: 324
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
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