This is an analysis of the poem Love-Tokens that begins with:
Afflictions do not come alone,
A voice attends the rod;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dXdd eaea eeee fafa bgbg ahah
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 010101 11100101 010101 11110101 1110001 11011101 111111 01010111 011110 11010101 110111 01110101 010100 11010101 010101 11010101 110001 11111101 010111 01011101 111101 11110011 111101 11111011 011101 11110111 010100 11011111 110111 10110101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, you are repeated.
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