This is an analysis of the poem The Forgotten Dialect Of The Heart that begins with:

How astonishing it is that language can almost mean,
and frightening that it does not quite. Love, we say,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXXXdddeccebXdffgedgdcc Xa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10100001101111 110010111111 1111110011101 1011111101010 0110111111 111111110010 010100010101110 111110101101 100001101101 1110110001011 100011010111 11011011010 00100100100010 110010011101 110111100111 101001101000101 1111101110010 1111101100110 01111101001 0110001010110010 100101101011 11010101100110 010001010100101 011010111111 11110101001011 0100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 657
  • Average number of words per stanza: 118
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, and, we, say, no, for, of are repeated.

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  • summary of The Forgotten Dialect Of The Heart;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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