This is an analysis of the poem Love Fulfilled that begins with:

Hast thou longed through weary days
For the sight of one loved face?... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcadcdaaee ffggcgcgghh ggbicbcXijj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111101 1010111 1110111 101010010 1011111 10110011 1011101 11111110 11111010 1111101 1110111 1111111 0011001 0011101 1001111 1111101 1110111 1011101 1011111 1010101 0110100 100111 11000101 1110111 1111101 1111111 11000101 1010101 0110111 1110100 1111101 1011111 1100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 344
  • Average number of words per stanza: 65
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; for, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, of are repeated.

    The author used the same word thou at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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