This is an analysis of the poem A Valentine that begins with:
YOUR cheeks are pinker than the rose,
Your eyes are bluer than the skies;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbC adadbcbC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 11110101 11110101 01110101 01110101 11010111 11111101 11111111 11011101 11110101 101100101 01011111 1100110101 11010011 10111111 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 290
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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; than, you, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word your is repeated.
The author used the same word your at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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