This is an analysis of the poem Love Among The Ruins that begins with:

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Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbccccaaddee X aaXbffbbgghh X dbXXffiijjkk X bbkXddjjhhbb a llddaaeeggjj a kkXXkffkkddmm X nnaaddbbffhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,12,1,12,1,12,1,12,1,12,1,13,1,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 10101010101 10110 10101010111 101 10101011111 111 10110010111 111 01101010001 101 10101010101 111 1 10101110101 111 00101010101 001 10111010111 001 10111010101 1110 100101010001 101 10101111101 101 1 11101010101 101 101010101100 110 100100010101 111 10101011111 101 10101111101 101 11101110101 111 1 10101010101 101 10101000101 1000 101010010101 101 101010100101 101 101011101001 111 10111010101 101 1 11111010101 101 011011101001 011 10111010101 101 10101011101 111 00101010011 101 10111111101 111 1 111010101001 111 101010101010 1000 1010101011 1 101 11111011101 101 11101010101 011 11111010111 111 1 01111010101 111 11111010101 101 101010100011 101 1111110111 101 11100010111 100 01101110101 101
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 92
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, all are repeated.

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