This is an analysis of the poem Betrothed that begins with:
I DID not think to love her. As we go
We pluck a hedge-rose blushing in its sheath,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccddc cdcdeecfX gegeeeffX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011010111 1101110001 1111110111 1111010101 0101110101 1101010101 1101 1101010101 0101111111 1111000101 0101110101 1111101101 1101110101 1001111101 1111111001 1111 1111111111 1111111100 1111010101 1111011101 1101001111 1100010101 0111001111 01100010111 1111 1101111101 1111110110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 371
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; we, to, and, i are repeated.
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