This is an analysis of the poem I Love Thee that begins with:
I loved thee; and perchance until this moment
Within my breast is smouldering still the fire!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dede d acbXXXbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,1,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101010 011101001010 11111101010 10110101010 11100101010 1101010011 11010011010 1111010111 010010 1111011111 0111000111 11010111010 11110111010 1111000101 1101011100 11101100110 111110011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of I Love Thee;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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