This is an analysis of the poem A Jet Ring Sent that begins with:

Thou art not so black as my heart,
Nor half so brittle as her heart, thou art ; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdX eedd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11111111 1111010111 11111111001101 1011010101 10111001 1111110111 10110101111101 101111101110 11011111 1001011101 01011101111101 1111011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou is repeated.

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