This is an analysis of the poem Song.—thou Wert Lovely that begins with:
Thou wert lovely to my sight,
When in yonder dell I found thee... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc ababdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110011 10101111 01100101 10101011 10111010 10001010 1110101 11111111 1011101 11101111 1110100 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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