This is an analysis of the poem To My Husband On Our Wedding-Day that begins with:
I leave for thee, beloved one,
The home and friends of youth, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdbeb ffcfdgdg fhXhXifi heeeXaha gjXjcafa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 011101 10111100 101111 11111101 010101 01111101 010101 11110111 011111 01010101 111111 01010111 011011 100100111 110101 10111101 111011 11110101 110011 01101101 1111001 11100101 010111 00111111 010111 01010111 010111 11011101 111101 10110101 001011 11111101 110101 11111101 011111 11011101 110101 11000101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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