This is an analysis of the poem When My Love Did What I Would Not, What I Would Not that begins with:
When my love did what I would not, what I would not,
I could hear his merry voice upon the wind, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX aXaX aXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011111111 11101010101 10100011111111 1010 111111111111 00101110011 10010010111111 1110 1111101101110 1110111111100 11111001001110 101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, not are repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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