This is an analysis of the poem What Shall I Your True Love Tell? that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbAbcccXAdAdebeXAeAXfXfX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 0,24,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111 10101 1111111 11101 10111101 11101 1101101 1110100 1111111 11101 1111111 1101 10101111 00101 1111011 111110 1111111 10101 1111111 11100 10110111 111001 1110111 101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • 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; to is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word is repeated.

    The author used the same word at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word 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 connects the lines.

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