This is an analysis of the poem Man's Devotion that begins with:
A lover said, 'O Maiden, love me well,
For I must go away:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaX cdcd eXeX bbbb fdfX ghgh baXa idXd fjfj eXee dkdk cXci kkkX lelX kmkm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0101110111 111101 1101010101 011011 1111010101 110101 1101010101 011101 1101010101 110001 1100010101 1101001 1101111101 110111 1101010111 011111 1101010111 111111 1111111011 1111110 0101010001 0110001 0110100001 111111 1111010111 110101 1111001100 110111 1010010100 110111 1101011000 110101 1101110111 110101 1101010111 0101001 1010010101 010111 0101010101 110101 1101110101 110111 1101111101 111111 1111101111 1110001 1101110001 100100 11010111111 111101 1101100101 111111 11110110101 110111 010101001111 0001010 1101010101 111110 1111011101 110100
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, again, long, i, ' 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 and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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