This is an analysis of the poem A Valentine [from An Old Lover] that begins with:
Estelle, when you and I were rising nine
Perhaps you'd rather I suppressed the date ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcaca dedefafa ebebXXaX gagaXcec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111110101 0111010101 1101010101 1101110101 011111000010 01010001011 11000111110 01011101010 1111110101 01010111010 11001110101 11010111010 0110011101 11110111111 1111110101 11000111011 1101110101 1101001101 0101111101 1111011101 11111110010 11111101010 1101111101 11110111010 1111001101 11111100010 1111011101 11110101010 01011101100 11110100010 1101000101 11011101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, in, you, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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