This is an analysis of the poem Love's Diet that begins with:
To what a cumbersome unwieldiness
And burdenous corpulence my love had grown,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbb ccccdd ececcc cdcdXX dXdaff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101000100 11001001111 11100101 1100010 1001010101 111101010 01110110111 0111011111 10011111 01101101 11010111111 1101011101 011010111001 0111110101 01101111 11011111 0111011101 11110111111 1101101111 1101011101 10110111 11110100 0110111001 00010010110 1101110101 1111111111 11000111 111101001 10101011111 1011111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; he, and, i are repeated.
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- summary of Love's Diet;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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