This is an analysis of the poem Bkiii:Ix A Dialogue that begins with:
‘While I was the man, dear to you,
while no young man, you loved more dearly, was clasping...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbX cXcX aXdd XcXd XbXX XXbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101101 111111110110 01011111 110101001101 110110111 11100111101 11000101 11100011010 10100111 110110101001 10110101 001101010011 11001001 101101001 11111110 001111010011 10110101 111110110011 0101110 101100010100 11100101 111011110100 10101010 11101010111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; her, you, than are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word while is repeated.
The author used the same word while at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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