This is an analysis of the poem The Duell that begins with:
Love drunk, the other day, knockt at my brest,
But I, alas! was not within.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabcX XdadXaa XaeaXcc Xefefbb egXgeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101011111 11011101 11111111101 1011111 110010011 1111111100 1 1101011101 1110101 1101011111 11100110 1111010101 1001010111 1 1101011111 11010101 1111110100 1101110 1111011101 0110110001 1 1111101111 11111111 0110110111 11010111 1111001101 1101101001 1 0001110101 1101100 1111011101 1101101 01011010100 0011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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