This is an analysis of the poem He Who Is Stricken By Love that begins with:
He who is stricken by Love
Sings and dances out of tune....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AB aa Xb AB XaccXAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101011 1110101 1110101 110001 1111001 110111001 1101011 1110101 1110010001 1001001 111110100 11010100 1101011 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 69
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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