This is an analysis of the poem Love's Apparition And Evanishment: An Allegoric Romance that begins with:

Like a lone Arab, old and blind,
Some caravan had left behind,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXcdcedeXfbgfgaahdhdfijji
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10110111 11011101 11010101 10111111 1111010110 1101010101 11011100111 11010101001 101010111010 1011010101 01110111010 1101010100 1101010101 1001010101 1101010101 0111110101 1111011101 1101010101 1101111111 01001111111 110111 1111010101 110111 11110101 111101 01110101 11010101 011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1156
  • Average number of words per stanza: 205
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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