This is an analysis of the poem Twice that begins with:
I took my heart in my hand
(O my love, O my love), ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBacdBdc aeafXeXf dgdaagaa AAahaAah fcfiacai Abajkbkj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011 111111 1111111 11111 101111 111111 1010111 11111 1111011 00101 00100111 1101 1100110 10101 110111 10111 1110101 111011 1110111 1110111 1111101 111101 1111101 1100101 1111011 111111 1101011 11111 1111011 111111 111101 1111 0100001 011101 011101 101101 0101001 110101 110011 111101 1111011 111111 011111 111101 111111 111111 111111 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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, i, nor, this are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, with, nor, this, i, all are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase broke connects the lines.
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