This is an analysis of the poem New Love, New Life that begins with:
HEART! my heart! what means this feeling?
What oppresseth thee so sore?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a ba bXX c d e fe fcc g g h eh edd fXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,3,1,1,1,2,3,1,1,1,2,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010 1100111 111010110 1010111 10111110 10101110 1111100 1110000 11101010 1011111 10111110 1100101 11110010 10111010 1000111 1011101 10111110 11100101 10101110 1110110 11101011 00011011 1010101 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 52
- Average number of words per stanza: 10
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; what, fled, so, her, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, fled, does are repeated.
The author used the same word by at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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- summary of New Love, New Life;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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