This is an analysis of the poem Because I Would Not Admit that begins with:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xab cdc Xeabcdf dghefeid fjfkjkkkgeadh XXjeCicXd dgdgeeeeee kXkXgeccgXeicC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,7,8,13,9,10,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101 11101 101 0111101 11110 11000111 01011001 1101 010110011 01010001 110 010100110 0111 1101 1011011 101011 10001 101011 1011010 1111110 101 0010010 111 010010 1111 1111 101101 101111 001001 0100101 101011 00011 0101111 0101 0101 01111 10110001 11101001 11 1101010 100110 11100101 1010001 111 01101 10011 0100110 010 0101 11101 1010101 11101 110 11111 11101 10011 1010 100101 0111101 101 0101 101 110111 100100 0111 11
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (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; my, dream, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words turning, the are repeated.
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