This is an analysis of the poem The Eye Of Love that begins with:
I know her story-telling eye
Has more expression than her tongue; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef fgfg hhhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 11010101 10110101 11010101 11111101 01010111 01000101 11000101 110100101 01110001 110100101 11010101 11011111 01010101 110010101 01010111 11111101 11010101 01010101 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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