This is an analysis of the poem My Sweetheart Is Coming As My Guest that begins with:

My sweetheart is coming as my guest. !
I'm making garlands of flowers,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abX abc bdX eba fbf bbc aXX Xea XXa XXa dab X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 111010111 01010010 10101100100100 101010001 11110010101 01010101 111101 11010101 111101 1101111010 10101011011 11011111101 111111101 111011101 1111110111 0110101110 111000101 0101010101 01101011010 1111110100 1011011010 010110111010 1111001 111100110111 11011001001 0010011101 11001001 1101111 1111101 111001001 001110101 11101011 11101101001 0101100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; he, my are repeated.

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

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