This is an analysis of the poem How Does Love Speak? that begins with:
In the faint flush upon the tell-tale cheek,
And in the pallor that succeeds it; by... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbA AaaaccA AadddeeA AafXccggA AaffhhiiccA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,8,9,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0011010111 1001010101 01001010101 0111010001 1111 1111 1001011101 0101011111 1101011101 0111010101 1101100111 1111 1111 0001001111 0101010111 0111001101 0111010101 100111001 1111110101 1111 1111 0011010011 01011100010 10111101010 0001010111 0111010101 00110111110 01111111010 1111 1111 011110111 11010100010 11011101110 1101010101 0011010001 0101111101 0101010111 0001110101 10001010001 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 318
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, in are repeated.
The author used the same word how 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 speak is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word speak at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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