This is an analysis of the poem Elegy Xviii: Love's Progress that begins with:

Who ever loves, if he do not propose
The right true end of love, he's one that goes... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXbbccXXccXdeeccddeeddffggeeaahhiiiiffaXcXhhaaggjjkkggjjccffdXddeXiiffiiiiXaeefaddllccddeellii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 96,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101011101 0111011111 0111010111 10011101100 1111011101 1110010101 0101010101 1101110101 0100010001 1101111100 1111011101 0100001010 01000000100 0101010101 1011010111 1111010101 1101011101 0101011111 1111010101 1101111111 1101011111 1110111110 1101011101 1101010011 1101111111 0000010100 10110111001 1100110011 1101011101 01011111001 1011110101 0101011111 1111010101 0101011111 1101101111 1101110101 1001110111 1110110000 1001000101 1111111101 0101000100 0011101100 0110111111 11110101100 1101011111 0101110111 01100101001 1111111111 0101010101 1101110111 0101010011 110101010 0101011111 1101110111 1111110111 1101001101 1001110111 0100010111 110100100001 100010110001 0101100001 1011011101 0101011111 1101110110 110010100011 1101010101 1101001101 11101110100 1101010101 1101011101 1111010101 0111010101 1011011011 1100011011 1111101111 1001011111 10100111010 1101010110 000101110 1010111101 0100110101 1101010100 100110001001 1101010100 0111010111 1001101111 1111110111 1101011111 11010101001 1011010011 1101010101 11011110001 1110010101 1111110111 1111010011 1111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4040
  • Average number of words per stanza: 758
  • Amount of lines: 96
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; from, women, and, we, there, be, to, which are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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