This is an analysis of the poem Not with a club, the Heart is broken that begins with:
Not with a club, the Heart is broken,
Nor with a stone; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXa Xbbb cXacX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101010 1001 011111110 11 0101010 101 1111110 101 010001 1110 011001 0101 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; is repeated.
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