This is an analysis of the poem Plighted that begins with:
Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty!
Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcddceeffeggeccXXehheeebbeiie
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001001110 111111110 110100111 11111101 10011101 110101011 0010100111 11111111 100111110 0010111010 10011111 10100101101 10101011111 11000100101 0100101101 01110100 111011110 0111001110 1011010101 1011101010 101111111 101111101 1110111011 1011101101 1111111110 101110110 10111100 101111101 10111011 10111111 100110111 1110110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1293
- Average number of words per stanza: 247
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; mine, love, of, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words mine, love, the, many, something are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase mine connects the lines.
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- summary of Plighted;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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