This is an analysis of the poem Busy Heart, The that begins with:
Now that we've done our best and worst, and parted,
I would fill my mind with thoughts that will not rend.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaabcbcdedeaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11111111110 11111011011 11111111010 1101011011 10011011110 1111011101 11111101110 10110010101 1101101101 11010011010 111111100101 10110011010 1101110011 11101011010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 666
- Average number of words per stanza: 119
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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