This is an analysis of the poem My True Love Hath My Heart, And I Have His that begins with:
My true-love hath my heart, and I have his,
By just exchange, one for the other giv'n.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbXcacXddddbA
- 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: 1111111110 1101110101 1101111101 1101010101 0101111101 1101011101 1111110101 11000101010 010101011 1111000101 1101110101 1111010101 1101001111 1111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 612
- Average number of words per stanza: 126
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; his, in, me, heart are repeated.
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