This is an analysis of the poem The Dagger that begins with:
I like you well, O trusty dagger mine,
My comrade wrought of cool Damascus steel! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa XbXb aaXa cdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111110101 1111010101 1011010001001 101001110111 01011011101 1010011011 111111100100 0101011111 0111010101 0101010001 1111101111001 1101111111 1101111011 11110101010100 1101110111 10111101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and, of are repeated.
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