This is an analysis of the poem On Fidelity that begins with:
I don't ask you to be faithful - you're beautiful, after all -
but just that I be spared the pain of knowing....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcXababdefgbdhcfeddiejhjjgeabdkXejdbkkidbgjfgXge X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 50,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111100101100101 11110101010 11110011111001 1101110101 001110010011101 010010111110 110001111101 11110101001 0100101110101 1101110101 011011110100 01011010111 011111010111 11101101111 1111110011100 1101010100 1001011100101 0110001101 111111111100 1111010011 11001011101 1111010101 111111001101 11010101010 110101111100 110101001010 1110110111010 1111011101 110111110100 11010100101 111111010111 1111101111 1111000111111 1111011111 111111010011 10101011010 111111110111 1110110101 11111110111111 1111011101 1101011111011 01100100001 110011100101 1111010111 011111111101 1110010111 1111010011101 100100111011 111111000111 11010110111 010001011100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1293
- Average number of words per stanza: 236
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, you, be, that, your, and, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words why, i are repeated.
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