This is an analysis of the poem No Sorrow Peculiar To The Sufferer that begins with:
The lover, in melodious verses,
His singular distress rehearses;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbccddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100010010 010001010 11000101 11010111 11010101 11011101 10010001 11000101 10110001 11011101 10011101 11011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 400
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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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