This is an analysis of the poem A Love Song that begins with:
O! Hernia! My hernia.
'Twas here we parted dear... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb Xddd ceae abdb Xfaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001100 111101 01011111 110101 111101111 110101 11010101 110011 11011101 110101 11110100 110101 11111100 111111 11011001 111001 01111111 010001 11001100 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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