This is an analysis of the poem Love Me A Little that begins with:

Love me a little, love me as thou wilt,
Whether a draught it be of passionate wine... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbabaab cddcdced eddedeed afXafaaf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101011111 10010001001 101101 11010101 110111 110111 010001 1001 1101010011 0011010101 1011010 01011101 111111 110101 111100 1011 1101010001 0101010011 100111 01010101 111101 110101 110111 1111 1101011111 11010110110 010100 11010101 0101001 111111 011101 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • 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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