This is an analysis of the poem Love In Death that begins with:
DEAR heart ! what a little time it is since Francis and I used to walk
From church in the still June evenings together, busy with loving talk ;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeee ffgg ffhh eedd ccff bbii jjbb dddd ddcc bbdd ddee jjhh kkbb ffll mmjj ccnnXffff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010011011101 01001110010100101 11101101101011101011 110101110110111101 111010110011101111 11011001111101011101 110010010111110101 111011101000111100100 1010110111011010100101 1111111100111111111 1110111111111101111 11101011101111001101 1110101110101111 10110101011101001 111010110110111001 10100100100100111001 111110010110111101 01010101111111101 11101111011111101 111111011111111101 11110110111001101001 1110110111111101011 01101010010111011 11011110011101101 111011110110111011 1010111111111101111 110010010111100101 111010110110101101 11111110111111111011 11111011101111011101 1100110101111011001 111001011111101001100 1110111101011101101 11111101001101011001 111001011001101111001 10111101101011001001 1110110111100101001 110100010011110001 111110111101101101 10101111111111111011 111110111101101 1110110111111001001 1001001111001011011 0101100101101101101 011011110101001 11110110110111101001 11110101111001001 10101001010110101 1010110111101001 1011010100101001011 101001111101101101 10111001001111001001 10100111110100101 110110101111011001 11101101111001011 11101011001111011101 11011001111101001 111111110010110101 00100101111110111 11111111111110101 1110111111111001 1010011010011110111 111111111110010010 0100101001101001010 11111101111101111 110010110110100101 11100100111111011 10100101111100101101 111001001101001001 1111010010111111101 10111111110101 110010100111100111 11111001111101101 11110110101110111001 11110101101001011 110111010111101111
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 75 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 15
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, i, in, we, as, his, so, be, he, me, of, she, her, think, for, love are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase so connects the lines.
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