This is an analysis of the poem The Long Love That In My Thought Doth Harbour that begins with:
The long love that in my thought doth harbour
And in mine hert doth keep his residence, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXaabbaXcXXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111011110 1011110100 0011100110 1011010010 1111001110 1011111100 01011011100 0010010010 100010011011 1001010111 1111011100 1111111010 1001010111 1000110100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 592
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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