This is an analysis of the poem Love's Anguish that begins with:
Shall I with lethal draughts drowse every thought
And let the days pass by with silent tread,–...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcddadaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11010111001 1101110101 11010101111 0111111101 1111010101 11110001001 11101010111 0101011101 1111110101 1101111101 1111010011 1111000111 1011110011 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 636
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.
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