This is an analysis of the poem Letter To My Lover After Seven Years that begins with:
You gave me the child
that seamed my belly...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abX cXd XXX cbd accecccaaX fefgaehiijbd XachXjg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,10,12,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 110110 1111 111110110 1001 101 11110110 01010 11111 111100 101010110 1011 1111 00010011 1100100 10001 1100010 1110000 11011 01101 010111 01010010 10111 1101 10111 010000111 01 1101 110010 10110111 10110 11100 101100 101011 1001 01010 011101 11010 1110101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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