This is an analysis of the poem The Tempted Soul that begins with:
Weak soul, by sense still led astray,
Why wilt thou parley with the foe?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXa abba cdXcdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11111101 11110001 11011101 11111101 110101001 11010111 11011101 010110001 01110101 10010001 11011100 11100001 11100101 11011111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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