This is an analysis of the poem Anima Anceps that begins with:

TILL death have broken
Sweet life’s love-token,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabcccbdddbeeeb ffXgaaagcccgcccg eeeheeeheeehfffh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,16,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110 11110 11010 1101 11110 11110 01110 1111 10111 110111 11111 1111 11010 10110 11110 1111 01110 10110 01111 1111 01110 01110 01010 1111 10110 10010 10110 1111 11110 10110 11010 1101 11110 11010 01010 0111 11010 010010 01010 0101 11110 11110 11110 1011 11010 11010 11010 1001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 339
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, not, s are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines not is repeated).

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