This is an analysis of the poem How His Soul Came Ensnared that begins with:
My soul would one day go and seek
For roses, and in Julia's cheek... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXXccXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 11010101 01001111 10010100 110010111 11011101 010010001 11111001 11011001 11010110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 334
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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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