This is an analysis of the poem Love's Avowal that begins with:

Dear heart of my heart,
Throbbing close to my breast... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXaabXacaac Xadbbdeedffd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011 101011 010110100 11101 011011 0010011010 11011 101011 011110110 10101 011111 1010010110 11011 011011 1111110010 11111 011111 1111111110 11111 111011 1111011010 11011 001011 1011111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 355
  • Average number of words per stanza: 70
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; of, my, your are repeated.

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