This is an analysis of the poem Heart Of My Heart that begins with:

Here where the season turns the land to gold,
Among the fields our feet have known of old,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddE ffeegghhE
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010101 0101111101 1101011111 1101100111 0111111011 1101110101 1011010111 1111111111 1011 1111011101 1111010111 10111011101 1111011101 1101011101 1111101101 1011011101 0101111111 1011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 376
  • Average number of words per stanza: 75
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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, than are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word heart at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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