This is an analysis of the poem Francine that begins with:
Did I believe the angels soon would call
You, my beloved, to the other shore,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdecde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101010111 1101000101 1111011101 1111111111 0010010011 1101000111 1101000101 11111100101 1100111111 0111000101 1101010101 0101010101 01010100101 0101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 550
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; i, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word forever is repeated.
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