This is an analysis of the poem She, To Him Iv that begins with:

THIS love puts all humanity from me;
I can but maledict her, pray her dead,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cacX XdXdXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 0111010001 1111000101 1101110101 1001111111 1111111111 1111011111 10111100111 10010001100 11111100000 10011110101 111111110 11100111101 0111110100 0101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; love, i are repeated.

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