This is an analysis of the poem The Symptoms Of Love that begins with:
Would my Delia know if I love, let her take
My last thought at night, and the first when I wake;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb bbb aaa ccc ddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11101011101 11111101111 011111001101 1011111110001 111001011011 101001101001 101111011011 111111011001 101011111001 101111111011 011001001011 101001011001 11101001011 11001001011 101111101001 11011001011 101111011001 101101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, i, her, to are repeated.
The author used the same word let at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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