This is an analysis of the poem The Debate Between Villon And His Heart that begins with:
Who's that I hear?—It's me—Who?—Your heart
Hanging on by the thinnest thread...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdXXXXX XXXXeXdXXX caXXedXXXX XebXeXXXXX XfXXXfa X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,7,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100100001 10110101 1111110110 11110101101 1011100010 0010111000 1001001010110 11100000010110 10111001110 110101100010110 11100000010 1101011011 1111000000 111010010100 111010011000001 1111110000 1100111010 01101111100 1100111100 110101100010110 110111010011 01011110100 10100101011 111011101111 101110101 11100001100010 11111010 101110110 111000110000 110101100010110 111100000001100 110111011 110110001 101111101 111001001 1011011100100 100101110000 110101111110 111100011110 110101100010110 10100011010 0100000100101 101000100110 1110000111000 1011000101010 1101110101 11010110001010 11010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 393
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, it, to, you, i'll, his are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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