This is an analysis of the poem Love that begins with:
Ricky was 'L' but he's home with the flu,
Lizzie, our 'O,' had some homework to do, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111001 1011111101 1011011101 10101111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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