This is an analysis of the poem Fatal Love that begins with:
Poor Hal caught his death standing under a spout
Expecting till midnight when Nan would come out;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11101101001 01011111111 11001011001 111010110011 1011111101 11111101100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 287
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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