This is an analysis of the poem From Love To Friendship that begins with:

If you would have me love once more,
The blissful age of love restore;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddeeffffggeehhaaiiffjjffkkffii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01111111 01010101 01111101 01011111 10110001 11101101 01110001 10111011 11010001 11110101 11010101 010100001 10110001 11010001 11010011 10110101 11110101 01100101 01010011 11110101 110100101 11010101 111001011 01011101 11110001 01011001 111101010 111101010 110101010 100101010 11010101 010010011 110101001 11010001 010101010 111011010 11110101 11010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1303
  • Average number of words per stanza: 229
  • Amount of lines: 38
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

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