This is an analysis of the poem Intrigue that begins with:
THOU art my love
And thou art the peace of sundown ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXbC AdcecffgC AechbXC AijhC AajdC AfbC AgkiC AXcljC AbkhC AjcC AckkC AllXccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,9,7,5,5,4,5,6,5,4,5,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 11101011 101111 10101011 00100101 101 1111 11101 111001 11011 1011011 110101 1011 101010100101 101 1111 1110101 11011 11100 1001010 011110 101 1111 111010100 1001010 1001100 101 1111 11101001011 1110110110 1110 101 1111 11101 101011 101 1111 111010 100100110 11010011 101 1111 11101 11101111 111101111111 11111 101 1111 111010 1011001010 11110110 101 1111 111010101 1111 101 1111 1111 10110110 11110 101 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, thou, art are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word thou at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines love, murder, death, thee are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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