This is an analysis of the poem A Song. In Vain You Tell Your Parting Lover that begins with:
In vain you tell your parting lover
You wish fair winds may waft him over... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccc XXddccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 011111010 111111110 01111101 11110111 01110101 11011101 01011101 01010101 01010101 11010101 111100111 11110111 11010101 01011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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