This is an analysis of the poem The Dagger that begins with:
The dagger of love has pierced my heart.
I was going to the river to fetch water, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbXbXXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010011111 111000100110 01010111 100111 101101 1010111 1011 10100101000 00010 00111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 296
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
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