This is an analysis of the poem For My Lover, Returning To His Wife that begins with:

She is all there.
She was melted carefully down for you ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcdefefgXhiXffeXhXejadjehkehdgbicldjjlajgXkbgX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011 1110100111 1110111 110111010010 111101110 1001100 110011001010 111101101 1101101010 110001110010 11101100110 10011010 10111101101 111110011001 00110100101100 11011101010 111101010110 110101111 111101001 1101110101 1000111 0010010010 011101011 110001101010 11101011101 1010111001 1101010010 01100111101 111111 111010 10101010 10000110100 10100001 101000011101 10110011001 101010110011 101011010 10101101 01001 110100111 11101010001 1100101001 101101100 1001010111 10101001101 1010 1111101010 111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1875
  • Average number of words per stanza: 342
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • 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; she, your, at, her, for, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, i, for, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines call is repeated).

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