This is an analysis of the poem Sweetest Love, I Do Not Go that begins with:

Sweetest love, I do not go,
For weariness of thee,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbccb dbdbbeeb fgfgdhhX ibibbXcb cgcXbjjb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011111 110001 1010111 010111 1111 111111 011101 111101 1000111 110101 11101011 111101 1111 1011111 10010111 111111 11100110 100101 10101010 1011001 1111 1111011 1110111 01101100 1111111 111101 1111001 111101 0100 1111111 0011111 110101 1110101 1001101 1001111 111110 1111 1110101 1110101 011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, thou, sigh'st, thy are repeated.

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

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