This is an analysis of the poem Lines By A Clerk that begins with:
OH! I did love her dearly,
And gave her toys and rings,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac dededfdf bgbgXdXd hihiacac gfgfXdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 110111 11111010 1111101 10111110 1010001 10111110 001111 1101010 0110111 11100010 010101 10100110 110001 10101010 010111 1111110 111101 11101110 010101 10101110 1110101 1111011 110101 1111010 111111 1111010 111101 1111010 110101 0101110 110111 0101010 110111 11101010 111101 1101100 1101010 1111010 1101110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; and, it, my, thou are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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