This is an analysis of the poem The Forfeiture that begins with:
My Dearest, To let you or the world know
What Debt of service I do truly ow ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffffggccaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1100111011 1101011101 011000100010 010100100010 0111000101 0101000101 0101011101 10111110100 1101011111 1100010101 1111011101 1111011101 1111110001 1111111101 1100110101 1101110110 1111110101 0100010111 1111010101 1111110001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 831
- Average number of words per stanza: 154
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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