This is an analysis of the poem How Shall I Tell You, O Beautiful One that begins with:
How shall I tell you, O beautiful one,
A Heemaal, enmeshed in your love,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcc dXeC fcXb ggdd XXdd ahfg ifeg dgXC XbdC bgbC cjcc hdXg jdbC jiXc X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1111111001 01001011 010100111 110011111 111100101 11011000 11010110110 11111 110101010 1001011 1111001111 0001001 1100101110 11111111 11100101 10011 10111110100 110110010100 10100111 111010 010111010 1111101 1110111110 110111 10100101 10100010 11011010 11010011 11011111 0101011 1101100010 11111 11011111 011111 1011101101 11111 110101111 01000101 0110101111 11111 10100110101 00111001 11101100111 11111111 111110111 1111011 111100101 1101101 1110100101 1111010 11011101 11111 10001101 1000111 101010101 111111 0101100110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 554
- Average number of words per stanza: 91
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; you, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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