This is an analysis of the poem A Rejected Lover that begins with:

You 'never loved me,' Ada. These slow words
Dropped softly from your gentle woman-tongue ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcabcc defdeff dgbdgbb haihaii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101110111 1100110101 1011110101 1100011101 0101110111 1011110011 111111010111 1101111101 1011010111 11001111101 1111001111 0101111101 1010010101 111101011101 1111110101 0111011101 0111111100 1111101001 1011011111 11111111101 1111111011101 11111011010 110111101 1110011111 01011111110 0111010111 1101010111 101111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 329
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, that, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.

    The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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