This is an analysis of the poem Sweetheart that begins with:
Sweetheart, that thou art fair I know,
More fair to me... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gdgd hchc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 1101 1101101001 0101 11011101 0111 11000101 0111 11011101 1101 01010011 0111 01111101 1111 01111101 1100 10011111 1111 11010011 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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.
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