This is an analysis of the poem Proud Of My Broken Heart that begins with:
Proud of my broken heart, since thou didst break it.
Proud of the pain, I did not feel? till thee.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110111110 1001101111 10111101110 100111010100 11111101001010 1011010110100 1111010001010 111111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; proud, my, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word proud is repeated.
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