This is an analysis of the poem Tender Only To One that begins with:
Tender only to one
Tender and true ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abccb Adeed Abffb Aghhg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001 1011 0101 01100 0011111 101001 111101 10111 00101 111101 101001 010101 0101 1111 111100 101001 110101 1101 00101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 18 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word tender is repeated.
The author used the same word tender at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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