This is an analysis of the poem A Love Letter that begins with:
Dearest!
You know you ever ARE the nearest... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabb ccddccbbcceXffeeghbbhhiXjjaaXbhhkkiilalfflllaalllbbXXmmaXbbffbbaaggccmmXXlXnncchhl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,82,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10 111101010 0111 1001 11110101011 10111 1101111111 1111 010001011 1111010101 100101 11 010111 0101 1111 1101 11011001010 11110101010 11011 010101 01010101010 01010111110 0101110101 0111011111 1011110111 1111 11110000101 1111010101 11010111110 1111010 0111000111 1101 11111111010 11010110010 1101 110111 0101010011 111101 1101 11110101001 1101111100101 1110 11 1101010110010011010 01010101010101010101 1101010 11110100010 1 10101 101011010101101011 110111 010101 111111 0100011101 1110010011 100001 0111 1100110 11111101010 11110 1010101110 0001 11010 1101 010111 1111010 1111010 111101 1111011111 1111 1101010111 11010 10101010 0101110101 1101000101 11010111000 01110 10110101010 1001 1101010 11111101010 10010 11110100110 01111101011 11010111011 1111110111 111101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1390
- Average number of words per stanza: 246
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; i, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, can, think, those are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you, me are repeated).
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- summary of A Love Letter;
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