This is an analysis of the poem What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why (Sonnet Xliii) that begins with:
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaabcbac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111111111 1101011111 1011110101 0101011111 0101110101 1011110101 11000011101 0101111001 101010101 1111110111 1101110101 1101111111 1101110101 0101101111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 599
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and, have are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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