This is an analysis of the poem Love's Dawn that begins with:

In wandering through waste places of the world,
I met my love and knew not she was mine. ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaXXaaXbccbcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 01001110001 1111111111 1101110101 111101011010 01110101100 0101011111 100110101 10011111100 0111111101 1001011100 1101010101 10111110111 111111101 11010000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 648
  • Average number of words per stanza: 117
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • history of its creation;
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