This is an analysis of the poem My Darling that begins with:
My darling laughed in the dawning,
And the birds perched low to hear....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcbCdcdefXfCeaegbAbabXbahahiaiagbab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010010 1011101 011010110 11101111 11110011 101001011 011111010 10110101 011110110 1110111 1010111110 01011001 11110011 0010101 11111010 11110111 111110111 111101011 11010010 1110101 11010010 1101101 111010010 1101001 11010010 10111001 11001110 11000101 10101010 1110101 101100010 1010101 111000011 11101111 11010010 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1292
- Average number of words per stanza: 245
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word each is repeated.
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- summary of My Darling;
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