This is an analysis of the poem A Man's Requirements that begins with:
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Love me Sweet, with all thou art, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbc X dede X fXfc X gcgc a bXbb a fafX X gcgc X fafa X hihi X jXje a kgkg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1110111 101010 1100101 110110 1 1101101 001010 0010011 001010 1 1101101 111010 1010001 1101010 1 1101111 111110 1101111 101110 1 1101111 101010 11011001 101010 1 1101111 101011 1101111 111011 1 1101101 100110 1101111 111010 1 1101101 101111 1110111 001011 1 1111101 101110 1110111 101010 1 1111111 101110 1110111 111010 1 1011111 101110 1011101 101010
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 60
- Average number of words per stanza: 11
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words love, with are repeated.
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