This is an analysis of the poem That Time And Absence Proves Rather Helps Than Hurts To Loves that begins with:
ABSENCE, hear thou my protestation
Against thy strength, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacc deeddd aaaaffXaffaff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111110 1011 1011 111111010 1101010 101111110 1101001100 1111 1001 0111110100 1111010 100011110 110111010 1101 1011 010101010 1111110 1101110010 11000111 11110 11110 01110011 1101110 110101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more 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; her, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
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