This is an analysis of the poem Fragment: Modern Love that begins with:
And what is love? It is a doll dress'd up
For idleness to cosset, nurse, and dandle; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXaXXbaXXbccXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101000111 1100010111 0101100101 1101110101 011101111 1011001101 11101001010 11010011011 11010111010 1100010101 1011011101 0111011111 0011011100 1011010101 1111011101 0101010111 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 727
- Average number of words per stanza: 131
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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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