This is an analysis of the poem Love Faithful In The Absence Of The Beloved that begins with:
In vain ye woo me to your harmless joys,
Ye pleasant bowers, remote from strife and noise;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0111101101 11010010111 11010001001 11010011101 01111111001 1111011101 0111111111 1111110100 1111110101 1111000111 1101110101 1011011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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