This is an analysis of the poem My Love that begins with:
Not as all other women are
Is she that to my soul is dear;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaa bcbbc dadda Xeefe egeeg cfccf Xecce hehhe idiiX bjbbj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 01101101 010010101 01010101 11010101 11011001 11011101 11000001 11111101 100011101 10011101 11110111 11010001 11111101 11100111 1110100 11101101 11111111 11010011 0101101 11110101 11110101 110110011 11001101 01010101 10101101 11011100 100100101 111101001 110100101 10111100 01110101 10111111 11110001 10010001 10010101 001100100 11010101 11011111 11011101 11000111 10110101 111101101 11001010 11110110 11011101 11011101 01010101 11011111 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, she, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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