This is an analysis of the poem Songs Set To Music: 16. Set By Mr. Smith that begins with:
Accept, my Love, as true a heart
As ever lover gave;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab abab cdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01111101 110101 1101011 110011 11010111 110101 10010111 100001 11010111 1100101 11110001 000101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it is repeated.
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