This is an analysis of the poem To Kate. (In Lieu Of A Valentine) that begins with:
Sweet Love and I had oft communed;
We were, indeed, great friends,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa baca Xdcd dbbb edacdXedcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111100 100111 11110101 111101 11010111 110111 11011111 011111 11110111 011111 11110111 110101 11110101 111111 10110101 101101 11011101 111101 0111 1101 001101 11110011 110111 01011111 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to 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 and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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