This is an analysis of the poem Love Is A Sickness that begins with:
Love is a sickness full of woes,
All remedies refusing;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababCAACdbdbCAAC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010101 1100010 01101101 1100110 11 11010101 01010101 11 10001001 0101010 11110001 1111110 11 11010101 01010101 11
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 405
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it is repeated.
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