This is an analysis of the poem The Lover Mourns For The Loss Of Love that begins with:

PALE brows, still hands and dim hair,
I had a beautiful friend... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111 1101001 1110101 1101001 1101111 1111011 1111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 7
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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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