This is an analysis of the poem Relationship that begins with:

This love older than I by myriad
Saddened centuries was once a prayer...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXabcdacXXdbeaed
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0110111100 101001101 0011101000 1010001011 0110101111 1100111111 1001111110 1010110110 0011101011 1111101000 100111111 1011100101 1111111011 1101011101 1111111111 1101111110 11001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 668
  • Average number of words per stanza: 129
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; that, my are repeated.

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  • summary of Relationship;
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  • history of its creation;
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