This is an analysis of the poem I Wish My Heart To You Was Known that begins with:
I wish my heart to you was known.
With emotions deep....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXX bcdec adca caabf agbfa hXh Xhebh aaii Xagega
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,4,5,5,3,5,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 00101 111011 1101011 111001 101000100 100100 11101 01011101 011100 011 00101011 0101 1111100 1111010 1001 110101 0011011111 11010010 01100010 10101 0011111 11101010001 1011101010 111000101001 010111 101110001 01000100 0110 1001 10111101 010011111 110111 110111 011111 110111 11011100 11 1110101 00101111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is 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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