This is an analysis of the poem Song: Eternity Of Love Protested that begins with:

How ill doth he deserve a lover's name,
Whose pale weak flame ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXXcc ddeeeebb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010101 1111 1001 0101010101 11111101110 1101 11110101 1001011101 1101111101 1101 1111 1111111101 1111100101 1101 11010011 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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