This is an analysis of the poem The Platonic Lady that begins with:
I could love thee till I die,
Would'st thou love me modestly,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbbb ccddee bXXXeeXaaccbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1111111 1111100 111111 111100111 11010001 11010101 110101010 010001010 011111110 011101010 11011101 10010001 11010111 01001101 01110101 01110111 11011101 11010101 11110001 11011101 11010101 11010101 11011111 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to 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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