This is an analysis of the poem Song Xi. - Perhaps It Is Not Love that begins with:
Perhaps it is not love, said I,
That melts my soul when Flavia's nigh;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbcc ddee ffgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01001111 11111101 11111001 11011101 01000101 01110101 01010001 110101001 00110101 01011101 11111101 11010011 11011101 01011111 000011010 110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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