This is an analysis of the poem The Surrender that begins with:
MY once dear love, hapless that I no more
Must call thee so, the rich affection's store ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ddbb eebbXbXcff gghhii ffffccXgXii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,10,6,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111101111 1111011001 1111110111 1101010101 1101010101 0111001101 1001011001 1101011001 11010111011 01011001001 0111111101 1011011111 1101111101 10010101101 0001011011 1011010011 1101011110 1101110111 111111001 10110110001 1011111101 1101110101 1111010001 1111110001 1011010101 1101010101 1111010101 1111111101 1111111101 1111011101 100111101 0101110100 0011110101 1011110111 1001011110 01011101001 1101111101 1001100101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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, with, that, witness, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word beyond is repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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