This is an analysis of the poem An Answer To A Love-Letter, In Verse that begins with:
Is it to me this sad lamenting strain?
Are Heaven's choicest gifts bestow'd in vain? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeebbaaffgghhbbbbhh eeiiaaeejjddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0001010101 1101010101 0101010101 1101011011 1100111101 0111011101 1101110101 0101110101 11010010011 1011110101 1111010011 1011100101 1101111101 1101000101 1111110111 0111011101 1111100101 10101011101 1111110011 1101010101 1111110111 0101010101 1101110101 11010011101 1001110001 1111111101 1111011101 1111111101 1111010101 1111010101 1111010101 1111010101 1111001101 1111111101 1011110101 1101110101 0101110101 0100111101 1111010111 1101010011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 898
- Average number of words per stanza: 157
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, nor, my, and are repeated.
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