This is an analysis of the poem Hearts First Word. Ii that begins with:
And all her soft dark hair
Breathed for him like a prayer,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffdXggee c Ch ch Ch chXch
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,1,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111 111101 10111 1100111 11101 1111 1101111 01001 100101 1011 0010101 1111 111111 1010100 110101 1011 0111001 010001 101111 101111 1011110 01111 111110 101111 1111110 01111 111110 011111 1111110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, love are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word lady is repeated.
The author used the same words lady, if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines god is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word heaven at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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