This is an analysis of the poem My Beloved that begins with:

My peace, O my brothers and sisters, is my solitude,
And my Beloved is with me always,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XababXXXcXXXac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 11111011001101 1101000111 1011111101 10100111011010 01001011101 1011000011011000 01101010101010 01110100001011101 11001011010010 0101010011111 1111111000 10010111011011100 111010110101010 110110011100101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 712
  • Average number of words per stanza: 134
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, and are repeated.

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