This is an analysis of the poem Tell Me Truly, My Dark Beloved that begins with:
Tell me truly, my dark beloved,
To which lovely girl were you making love?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABXAB XcAB XcAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011010 0110101101 1110100101111111001 111011010 0110101101 01100101010100001 110111011110111 111011010 0110101101 10000100010110 1100110110110 111011010 0110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 13
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, beloved are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word love at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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