This is an analysis of the poem O Could We Always Live And Love, that begins with:
O could we always live and love,
And always be sincere, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cded fgf ghdhd cfefXcece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,5,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 111001 111111001 110101 11010111 111101 11010001 010101 01011111 010001 11010101 011111 01010011 1111000 11010111 110111 1111001001 011101 111111001 010101 11010101 111101 01010001 010001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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