This is an analysis of the poem Sometimes With One I Love that begins with:

SOMETIMES with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse
unreturn'd love;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011111110111110 10001 111110110001010101 11010 11010101001111101 1101111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 310
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 6
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, love are repeated.

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