This is an analysis of the poem Description Of Love that begins with:

A true lover is proved such by his pain of heart;
No sickness is there like sickness of heart....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcdddceXafdfecfabXbXfXgaXabg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011001110101 1100111001 0101001000110 10010001100 0101101001111 110110100101 11011011011 111011101011 10101011111 11101010 111001 110001010101 10101101001 11101101 001001011111010 111011011110 110110101 0111001110100 110111010110 11001010101 1101101101 11010100101100 001101110101 10100111111101 1001001001110 11011001100 101001010100 111101010101 101100101010 111000001100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1407
  • Average number of words per stanza: 263
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, love, we, sun are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines heart, love are repeated).

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