This is an analysis of the poem Beloved, how could you break the oath to me you swore? that begins with:
Beloved, how could you break the oath to me you swore?
Beloved, am I today not the same as I was before?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaddeeffggddXabbeeedehhgdhhiibb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 37,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101111010111 010110110111101 11110010101011 1101010111111 11110100111111 1001001101111 11010110100101 1010110111101 11001010010101 11011110110101 11001101101101 1111011101010 11010100110111 11110101011011 11100101101 10010100111001 1111011001001010 1011011010010010 11011011111100 11000100101111 1111110010111 1110101010101001 11011110111111 111111111100101 11011110101011 111111111010111 01 11110110101111 11110110110111 110110110111001 111110100111101 1011011111000101 11010111111111001 111101101101 11110111101101 11111010101011 11001110100001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2048
- Average number of words per stanza: 393
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, my, me, and, your, i, what, to, have are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words beloved, what are repeated.
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