This is an analysis of the poem I Long For My Beloved that begins with:
I long for my beloved.
One speaks, laughing in delight,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: A bXcA baXA XXXA cXXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 1110001 010111 1010010011 1111010 11001101 0101 11111101100 1111010 111010010 0111010 11111111 1111010 11011111 101111000101 110101010 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word beloved at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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