This is an analysis of the poem The Sorrow Of Love that begins with:

THE brawling of a sparrow in the eaves,
The brilliant moon and all the milky sky,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcacaabab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0100010001 0101110101 1111010001 1101110101 0101111101 1101000101 110100101001 1111110001 01110101001 0101011101 1111000001 1101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 499
  • Average number of words per stanza: 92
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • 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 the is repeated.

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