This is an analysis of the poem I Charge You that begins with:

I charge you, O winds of the West, O winds with the wings of the dove,
That ye blow o'er the brows of my Love, breathing low that I sicken for... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd ee ff gg ee dd hh ii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1111100111001001 1111001011101111011 1111100111001001 111101011001011001 1111100111101011 111001001111011011 11111000111001111 111001101011001101 1111110111101001 010000111101001100 101101111010010110 110111011100110010 1111001111011101 11111000111001001 111100110011101 0110111010001111101 0100101101001001 0110110111111111 011100111101111 11001111011011001 0101100111011001 1111111011101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 71 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 15
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, o, i, that, love, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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

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