This is an analysis of the poem Heart’s Chill Between that begins with:

I did not chide him, though I knew
That he was false to me.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababac XdedXd fafafa bgbgcg dedede hihihi bXbjbjXhdhdhd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111111 111101 10100001 010001 01000101 110100 111111010 110101 11010111 010111 110111010 110101 10010001 110101 11010011 111111 11101111 010101 11111100 111101 11101101 110101 01000100 010101 11010111 101111 11111101 111111 11110101 101101 01010111 011101 01100101 110001 110101001 010111 01111111 111100 11111111 111101 11111101 111111 11111011 110101 11111101 110011 10111011 010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • 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; it, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, why, to, and are repeated.

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  • summary of Heart’s Chill Between;
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  • history of its creation;
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