This is an analysis of the poem I Hid My Love that begins with:
I hid my love when young till I
Couldn't bear the buzzing of a fly;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaa XXaaddee ffXdeegg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 101010001 11110101 111110111 11110101 110100011 1001101101 11111111 11000101 11010111 01110111 01111101 01110101 01110111 11010111 11110101 11110111 110011111 011101010 01110101 110010101 01110101 01010111 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 282
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; i, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the, a are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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