This is an analysis of the poem Mine that begins with:
O HOW my heart is beating as her name I keep repeating,
And I drink up joy like wine: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abABcXaB AbABXcaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101010111010 1111111 111101010111010 1010101 11110101 01010111 111101010111010 1010101 111101010111010 0010111 111101010111010 1011101 11111111 01010101 111101010111010 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 337
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, her are repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word mine at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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