This is an analysis of the poem In A Word that begins with:
THUS to be chain'd for ever, can I bear?
A very torment that, in truth, would be....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbabacbXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001110111 0100110110 0101110111 1111010101 1101111101 0101110101 1101110101 0111110101 1101010001 0100110101 1001010101 1111010001 11111000110 1001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 603
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- 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.
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