This is an analysis of the poem The Sacrilege: (A Ballad-Tragedy) that begins with:
PART I
'I have a Love I love too well... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bCbdeeeX dCdfcccX eCeXdddX dCdaggga hchXdddX cccceeeX dcdhfXfh aCadaiad hChajXjX X dCdajjja eCeekcce ecejjjjj bcbgjjjg AcAeaiae kcXcdddc LcLddddd mcmehhhX jcjXlllX ececaaacXhchmmmmm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,1,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11 11011111 110011111 11011111 011111 10111111 11110111 01010101 1100010 11011111 111111001 10111111 011101 11011111 01011101 11000101 111100 11011111 110011111 11011111 111110 11111101 11011101 11110101 1111000 111100111 111111001 111100111 110101 110010111 11010101 11110111 111111 11101101 110011111 010101001 11110 01010101 11000101 10011111 1101001 1111111101 0100101001 1110111001 010111 11111111 10011101 11011001 0101010 10110101 110011111 11110101 110011 11110101 11111000 1101100 110111 11010111 111111001 11010111 010111 11111111 110000110 11010111 010111 111101001 110011111 110101001 110100 11010111 11010110 01010101 011101 11 101101001 111111001 111101001 111101 01011101 11010101 01110101 110101 1111111 110011111 11111101 100101 11010100 11010101 111101001 110111 111011111 110101001 11111111 111111 111101111 010100101 00100101 110001 11011111 110010101 11011111 110101 11010001 010100001 10110001 110111 110010101 0100011111 110010101 111111 10011101 01011100 00111101 100111 11111100 01000101001 11000110 111111 110011001 01010101 11000101 010111 11010101 110010111 11010101 100110 11010101 01110111 11010111 100101 11111101 110101001 11111101 1100111 110010111 11010111 11010101 110111 11010111 110011111 11010101 1001000 110101011 11110111 01111111 111111 11111101 111101001 11111101 110111 010100101 11111101 10010101 010111 11011101 010010111 11011101 111101 11110101 11010101 11110111 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 162
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, love, as, and, on, had, to, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, my are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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