This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet: I Said I Splendidly Loved You; It's Not True that begins with:
I said I splendidly loved you; it's not true.
Such long swift tides stir not a land-locked sea.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXcdedebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11110011011 1111110111 1111011111 0111011111 1101010010 101100101001 11110000101 1111111101 1011111101 11110010101 1101111101 1101101100 10011111111 1111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 657
- Average number of words per stanza: 123
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; not, or, love are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word love is repeated.
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