This is an analysis of the poem O, Were My Love that begins with:
O, were my love yon lilac fair
Wi' purple blossoms to the spring,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcbc XXXXdddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10111111 110100001 11010101 11011101 11111011 11011101 11111101 11010101 11110111 11010101 11100111 0001101 11010101 11110101 11011101 110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 282
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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