This is an analysis of the poem My Beautiful Dark One that begins with:
My beautiful dark one, I ‘d sacrifice everything for your playfulness!
Playfully you grazed the cows at Gokul,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXXa bbXXA XXcA XcXA XbA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,4,4,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100111110110111100 1001101110 110011101001 10010101010 110011110 110011111110111100 10011011001 110011110101 1001100100100 11001100100100 1100111110110111100 100001010010110010 110001001 10011000101 1100111110110111100 100101110 10111010 1100111010001010101 1100111110110111100 010101111 100111001100100101 1100111110110111100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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 author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, playfully are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word playfully at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word playfulness at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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