This is an analysis of the poem Upon Ford's Two Tragedies that begins with:
Love's Sacrifice, and the Broken Heart.
Thou cheat'st us, Ford, mak'st one seem two by art ;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110110101 1111111111 10110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 70
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 3
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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.
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