This is an analysis of the poem So Missed With It (Si Manqué Avec Cela) that begins with:

No other way can I say love is felt.
Desired and wished beyond kissing lips....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCa decd ffAXacacb ABCa g XXXX hhXX ffXXXXeaX XXXg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,4,1,4,4,9,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101111101 0101101101 1010111011 1001000011 010110101101 11011010 0010101010 101111111 01011101 11111101 1101111101 001111110100 1010100101 1111010 11010001 110101010 0111101 1101111101 0101101101 1010111011 100100001100 1101010 11111111101100110 110101111100 1110111011 110010110 1001100111000001 110110010 101111010100 1100011111 1101000101 111111111 11111111101100110 11111011100 111101 1111111 1111100110 1111110001 1011110111 11111111101100110 110101111100 1110111011 1100101101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; and, on, you, to, i, de, et, je are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, je are repeated.

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

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of So Missed With It (Si Manqué Avec Cela);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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