This is an analysis of the poem I Swear To You, Love, By Your Arrows that begins with:

I swear to you, Love, by your arrows,
And by your powerful holy flame,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXbcabXbcbcba
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 110111110 111100101 11101111 111101010 1101111110 110110010 010001101 1111010100 11001010100 111100101 11010111010 10111111001 00011100110 10110010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; by, i, that are repeated.

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