This is an analysis of the poem My Love (Do Not Ask Me) that begins with:
Do not ask me, the name of my love
I fear for you, from the fragrance of perfume...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaa bc aa cccXcd aXXdbXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,2,6,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101011 11110010001 0100100110 101011 11011010010 11111101 111101011 1110010011 1110001001 00100101 0010001001 10010100100 0010101101 0010001001 111010101001011 101010100 10101001 1011101 10110100010 101010111 11101110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, in, of, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, and are repeated.
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