This is an analysis of the poem My Beloved that begins with:

My beloved,
with his bare bold body- ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Abcd ecfc CG cae cXh dXi hfi aecb cd cc Dic DcX CG Agah Agehe Xi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,2,3,3,3,3,4,2,2,3,3,2,4,5,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010 001110 11001 1011 1011 101011 1101001 001 10101001 00101 00100101 010010011 101101 01000101 0101010010 110001 10100101 001101 0010101 10100101 1010010110 00100110101 101000100001 111111 1010001001010 1001001010 1011010 0100101 0010101 011001001 110101 11011101 1111010 110101 0110010011001 0110101101 10101001 00101 1010 1001001 10010101 11101 1010 100101 11011001101 1111101 00101011 0101010000101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 87
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • 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; like, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, my, all, the are repeated.

    The author used the same words in, my, he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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