This is an analysis of the poem If Thou'Lt Be Mine that begins with:
If thou'lt be mine, the treasures of air,
Of earth, and sea, shall lie at thy feet; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababc cdcdc efeXcXcfcfc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101001 011111111 110010111 101110111 101011011 1101101011 010111011 01111101 1010111001 011011011 111101011 111101011 11111111 001110101 101011011 101101001 111001101 110110101 1111101011 111011011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines love is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word love at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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