This is an analysis of the poem The Lost Mistress that begins with:

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All's over, then: does truth sound bitter... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcXc X dada X efef X gbgb aXabab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 110111110 111101 110100110 011101 1 1011101110 110101 111101010 110111 1 0101101110 1111101 111111010 111101 1 1110011111 11101010 111110101 101011110 1 110111111 1100110 10111111111 11101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 76
  • Average number of words per stanza: 15
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.

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