This is an analysis of the poem Lost Hopeless Lover that begins with:
I never meant to see you leaving
With an emptiness so vacant...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbX a bcCB a dabX cceEEE eEeeee ACXBebde deeEXCcaeEEEE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,1,4,1,4,6,6,8,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101110 01100110 10101000100 111010 11010001 11111 11 101100 111010 110101010 11110 10101000 1 110101 10101 1110 1011010 0010 0010 11110 1011010 100010 010 10 11010 110101110 11 101 101100 010 101 1 1010 1 110 0010 1011010 11 1 010 1110 0010 1011010 01011010 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 80
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 17 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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