This is an analysis of the poem My Lord, Embrace Me Deeply that begins with:

My lord, embrace me deeply, and soothe my heart.
Take me in your fond embrace I’ll offer you my body, young and tender....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AXXA XaA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101111 110110111011101110 1111011111110 11011101111 0111001011000001 01001101010 11011101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 7
  • Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, me, and, embrace are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word heart at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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