This is an analysis of the poem Love And Folly that begins with:
Love's worshippers alone can know
The thousand mysteries that are his;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXcd ededfgfg hehe ibib XbcbcXcX jejekakX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,4,4,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000111 010100110 01010101 01011100 01010101 011101010 11010101 01000101 11010101 010101011 01011101 01010101 11011111 11010101 111100101 11110101 01010111 11110101 01011101 11010101 0111000101 11010001 101010100 11000111 100011101010 11010101 100011101 11110100 01110111 01010101 01010010 1100101110 11111101 11111001 110101001 110101001 11010101 101010101 11000101 1000111010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, and are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase his connects the lines.
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