This is an analysis of the poem Kisses that begins with:
Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses?
How soft is this one, how subtle this is, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXXabbccddaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11111010110 1100111000 11001101110 10111101010 1011111100 01010001010 1011011110 100111110 1000111110 100100010 1010011101 1111111001 0010011111 1111 01011001011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 631
- Average number of words per stanza: 127
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; how, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is is repeated).
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