This is an analysis of the poem The Bliss Of Absence that begins with:
DRINK, oh youth, joy's purest ray
From thy loved one's eyes all day,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bcc b dd bcc b ee fgg f bb gddXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 0111111 1010111 1011101 1110101 1110001 10010101 1010101 1010101 10110101 1110101 1110111 1110101 1110101 1110111 100001010 10101010 1010011 1111101 1010101 1110101 11101001 1010101 1011001
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 59
- Average number of words per stanza: 11
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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