This is an analysis of the poem My Lady that begins with:
You were the most important woman in my history
before the leaving of this year...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdeXad AdXXXXdcdXc AfdcfgeeegXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,11,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010101001100 01010001 11110010 1001001 1010111001011 101010010010 10011 10100100110 010100 110 0111101011 011111001010 1010010 10110 011100010011101 0111001101010 100101010 1110 110011111 011100010010 110 11101010001 10101000 1010111110 10101 10111 10110010 110110010 110110010 11011 1011 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 332
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you're, woman, of, my, in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you're, the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines enter is repeated).
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- summary of My Lady;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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