This is an analysis of the poem The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Iii: Gods And False Gods: Lvii that begins with:

ON A LOST OPPORTUNITY
We might, if you had willed, have conquered Heaven.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbccdcdXdbaXebcec
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10110100 11011111010 1100110101 010111110010 1101010101 1111010111 1001011101 1101010111 0101011101 1011010100 1101010101 1001010111 0101110100 1001111001 1111010001 11010100101 11011101001 1111010101 1111110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 791
  • Average number of words per stanza: 144
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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