This is an analysis of the poem My Heart Is High Above that begins with:

MY heart is high above, my body is full of bliss,
For I am set in luve as well as I would wiss ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXXbccXbXddddXXXeeaacXXXff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101011100101 111101111111 1111011110101 110100101100 101101110111 101110110101 110111101101 110100011111 011101110110 1000001011101 111101110110 111101110111 1101110010101 10011100101101 1111110110101 11011101100110 1101011010111 101101110101 11011111001 1010110101101 110101010010 11011010010010 1101111100111 1011101010100 1000111111110 111111100101 110101101101 110111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1366
  • Average number of words per stanza: 275
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, i, her, she, and, we, our, you are repeated.

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

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