This is an analysis of the poem They Know Not My Heart that begins with:
They know not my heart, who believe there can be
One stain of this earth in its feelings for thee; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaa cccccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101110 11001001011 111111010110 111010111010 111111101101 11101101001 11001111101 101111101001 00111101101 101001111011 1011110110011 011001011011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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