This is an analysis of the poem Recipient Of My Devoted Loyalty that begins with:

Closer to show,
I am so in love with you....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aAaa abcX DAEEA XXdf ccXca DAEEAbefXA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,4,5,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001 1110101 1001111 0111101 10011110101 10100011110100 101001111 1001010000 11111 01110101 1010011011 11011101 111001110101 111101 00011110 10111 10111010 00100111 10111011101 111010101 1010000100 010101001 11111 01110101 1010011011 11011101 111001110101 101110011 00110011 111101101 1110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

    The author used the same word closer at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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