This is an analysis of the poem I Fall, I Fall that begins with:
I fall, I fall, O stay me,
Dear love, with joys you slay me,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 1101111 0111011 1111011 1101110 1111110 1111010 1101110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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