This is an analysis of the poem Love Abused that begins with:
What is there in the vale of life
Half so delighted as a wife,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddddeeeebbXeffddgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100101 11010101 11011110 01010101 010111001 01010001 11010101 100010101 11000111 0100101001 11010111 01100111 010111001 11000101 110101001 01110101 011000100 101100101 01010111 010001001 11110100 01010101 01010101 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 831
- Average number of words per stanza: 138
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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