This is an analysis of the poem Love's Paradox that begins with:
Once I smiled when I saw you, when I saw you smile I was glad,
And the joy of my heart was as foam that the sea-wind shakes from the sea;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111111111111 10101111110111001 1010111110111111 1010111111001 111111111111111 101001001001101101 1010111110111111 1011011111001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 67 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 15
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, i, and, heart, smile, you, me, your, voice, of are repeated.
The author used the same word once at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- idea of the verse;
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