This is an analysis of the poem The Torments Of Love that begins with:

Fragments 84, 45, 82, 36, 38, 37, 40, 80, 50, 55, and 42 combined.
O Queens of Song, descend from your home....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbcaaddeeffdXdghhg aiaiddiid
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,19,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011111111111101 110101011 00101010011 11011101 1000101111 101011011 10110101101 11111101 111001001011 110010111 10110100111 11101101001 1111111101 0100101001 111111101 11111101 11101001011 1110101111 010111111 111101111 111101101 110110101 1101101101 01111001111 1010010011 110111111 10010110101 111010111 110110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 406
  • Average number of words per stanza: 77
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, my are repeated.

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  • summary of The Torments Of Love;
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