This is an analysis of the poem Plea that begins with:
Secrets, you said, would hold us two apart;
You'd have me know of you your least transgression,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcX dedefbfb gg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111101 11110111010 11010010011 10110110010 1011011101 01010101010 100010111 11111101110 1011010001 11111111110 1001111101 111101111110 1111010011 01110101010 1101001111 11001111010 10110111010 11011011000
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; you, of, and, so are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
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- summary of Plea;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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