This is an analysis of the poem My Bride That Is To Be that begins with:
O soul of mine, look out and see
My bride, my bride that is to be!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAbXcbcbaA addeaffffggaaaA gghiiihhaggaA ffhhiggieggea bbajejbbbbkkggkXiiccaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,15,13,13,22,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 11111000 11010101 11011000 11110101 11010111 01011101 01010101 01011101 11111000 01100111 11010101 01011101 01011100 11111000 11010101 11010001 11010101 01011101 101011111 11110101 11110101 11010101 11011101 11111000 11100111 11011111 11011111 01000111 01110101 110110101 11000101 01010101 11110001 11110011 01000111 11011111 11111000 01010101 01110101 11000101 01010100 11010101 11110111 11010101 11010101 01011100 11011101 01111101 01111100 11111000 11011101 11110101 11010101 01011101 11010100 11110111 11010101 01011101 11010101 11010111 01010011 01010101 11010101 01011101 11010101 11010100 11010101 01000111 11001111 01010101 11011001 11111000
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 483
- Average number of words per stanza: 95
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, as, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word be at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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