This is an analysis of the poem In Which She Satisfies A Fear With The Rhetoric Of Tears that begins with:

This afternoon, my love, speaking to you
since I could see that in your face and walk...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaaccadXdede
  • 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: 0101111001 1111101111 1101010101 1101011111 0101011101 1000100001 0111101111 1101011101 0111101111 1001001100 1111110001 1101111001 1011111111 1111010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 589
  • Average number of words per stanza: 111
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, to, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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