This is an analysis of the poem Love's Vision that begins with:

TRANSPORTED out of self by Youth's sweet madness,
Emulous of love, to Love's empyrean height, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbXabba cdceed
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 01010111110 10001011001 1110110001 11101101010 11010111110 0101110001 1101010101 11110111110 1111100011 1100110101 0101010101 1111001101 01010010101 11110111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • 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; of is repeated.

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  • summary of Love's Vision;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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