This is an analysis of the poem Look Not In My Eyes, For Fear that begins with:
Look not in my eyes, for fear
Thy mirror true the sight I see, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc dedecfcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111 11010111 11111111 11010111 1011111 1010101 11111111 1011011 01011111 1110101 1000101 11010101 110101110 01011101 10101010 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 265
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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