This is an analysis of the poem Love's Sacrifice that begins with:
When I asked my dear Edwin to shave
I'd never a thought of denial; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcaca cdcdeceX cfcfdcdc ggggcfcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111001 110010010 10111011 110010110 101101001 0101111 111001001 111101 101111001 1111010010 011111011 110010010 1111101001 11111011 11101001 1111001 101111111 010110010 11001111 111011010 11011001 10001011 11011011 11001 111101111 110010110 11101011 0011101110 110010011 11111011 111111111 11011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 275
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; he, ', and, i are repeated.
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