This is an analysis of the poem There Goes My Love! that begins with:
There goes my Love!
What do I do, my Lord? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aB abXB XbB Xbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 111111 1010101 010101 0010011 111111 11001 1111 111111 11101 110111 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 69
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, my are repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word lord at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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