This is an analysis of the poem Woman's Love that begins with:
Sweet lies! the sweetest ever heard,
To her he said:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbcX ccbX cccc XdeX eedX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 0011 010101001 1101 11010111 11111011 11011111 11110 10011001 01010111 11110101 11011101 11110111 1111 01011111 1101 11110100 11110111 11111101 1011 10011101 01111111 11110101 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; lie is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase love connects the lines.
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