This is an analysis of the poem The Two Loves that begins with:
Smoothing soft the nestling head
Of a maiden fancy-led,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb ccc ddd ccc aaa eee ffX eee ffX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 0010101 1011101 1011111 1010111 1111111 1110101 1100101 0011111 1010101 1111101 1110101 10100111 0110101 1010011 1010101 1010011 1010101 1111001 1011101 1011101 11101001 1010101 1010101 1110111 1000111 1010101 1110101 1010101 11101100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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