This is an analysis of the poem If Love Be Holy, If That Mystery that begins with:
If love be holy, if that mystery
O co-united hearts be sacrament;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbcdXeebdaeeXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101001100 1101010100 0001010101 01010001001 00110011001 11011101001 01001011101 01110101010 1101010111 10110001001 011101011 1111010101 010100101010 1000111010 1101010111 010110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 665
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; if, those are repeated.
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