This is an analysis of the poem To His Mistress In Absence that begins with:
FAR from thy dearest self, the scope
Of all my aims,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110101 0111 110101 11010111 110101 0101110 11010101 1111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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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