This is an analysis of the poem Marriage that begins with:

LOVE springs as lightly from the human heart
As springs the lovely rose upon the brier, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdXdcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 10111000101 101010101010 11010101010 1111010101 1100010101 01011101010 00110001010 1101111001 0101111111 01110001010 1111010101 01010101010 1001000101 11111111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
  • Average number of words per stanza: 57
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; as, of, to are repeated.

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