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

YES, love, the Spring shall come again,
But not as once it came: ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababab cdcdcd efeXef bgXXbg ahahah iaiaia jcjcjc jgjgXg Xdcdcd hhhhhh dkXkdf cicici ififXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 110011101 111101 11011101 010111 01011101 011101 01011101 010101 11010111 010101 01111111 1101101 111111101 111101 01010101 111110 11100100 111111 11110101 101101 11010110 111101 110110101 110111 101010101 110101 101010101 011101 110101001 100101 100101101 111101 11110101 110101 11010101 110101 11110101 111111 11001111 111111 010100101 1100111 11110011 0101010 11110101 0101010 111100110 111101 10110100 100111 11010101 100101 011001101 010001 11010101 011111 10000101 110111 010100001 110101 111101111 0111010 11011100 0101010 01010110 101101 11110011 110101 01110111 110111 11110101 011101 111101011 010111 01000111 101101 111110110 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 78
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

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

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