This is an analysis of the poem Where Shall The Lover Rest that begins with:
Where shall the lover rest
Whom the fates sever ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaBcdcX e d cXcfgBgB e B aXabhfhX e f ijijabaB eXB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,1,1,8,1,1,8,1,1,8,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 10110 001101 10110 111111 10110 1101001 10011 10 110010 110101 11110 110101 11110 111111 10110 100101 10110 10 10110 110101 10100 111101 10110 00110 111010 110110 01001 10 111010 0110101 100110 0110111 11010 110101 10110 101100 10110 10 10110
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 78
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; never is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word never is repeated.
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