This is an analysis of the poem My Secret. (From The French Of Felix Arvers) that begins with:

My soul its secret hath, my life too hath its mystery,
A love eternal in a moment's space conceived;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXaab ccbaab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 11010111110100 010100010101 10010011110100 111101110101 0111111101000 1101011111010 1110011111010 100111110101 1011110101010 1011010110110 110001110101 1001011000110 0111111110010 110100101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 363
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; its, for, her are repeated.

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