This is an analysis of the poem Thus Love Commands that begins with:
Thus love commands, that I in vain complain me,
And sorrow will that she shall still disdain me:... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011101011 11001111011 1011111101 0101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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