This is an analysis of the poem The Lover: A Ballad that begins with:
At length, by so much importunity press'd,
Take, C----, at once, the inside of my breast;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeccffff eeeeaagg aahhccii aaccjjgg Xaaakkcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11111100001 1111001011 01010011011 011001001101 11111101001 10111011011 1111111101 111110111011 111001011001 10001011001 1110111111 01101011001 11001001001 11011111001 11001111001 111101011101 1101111101 11001111001 0111101011 1100101011 01001001011 11001101001 11001101001 1110001111001 11011001011 111001101011 11011011001 01001101011 01011001001 111001011001 11001101111 11101111101 11101101001 101101001001 01101011101 11011111011 01011011101 11011111011 11001001011 111111101111 11001001010 101101101001 01011011111 11011001011 11011011001 01101001101 111011001001 11011111011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 362
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, would, not, and, may, be, whose, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words not, but, and are repeated.
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