This is an analysis of the poem Love that begins with:
Love is the sunlight of the soul,
That, shining on the silken-tressèd head... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cddc ceec bbbb fggf hXXhXcddc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011001 110101011 0011010101 01010100 11011101 1101010011 1111000101 10010111 11111101 0101011101 0111110111 11110101 10110111 0101110101 1011111111 11010101 110001001 1101011101 1110010101 01110111 11111101 0101110100 1101110101 11110101 01010011 0101110101 1101110011 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Love;
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