This is an analysis of the poem XXI. 'Two lovers stood alone beneath the night' that begins with:
Two lovers stood alone beneath the night,
And, quickened with a sudden strength, one said,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbabaaX cdcdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101010101 1100010111 1101010101 1101000101 1111010111 1101011101 1011111111 11110101001 010011101010 1110010100 01010101010 1101010101 1101011101 1011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 296
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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