This is an analysis of the poem Star Of My Heart that begins with:
Star of my heart, I follow from afar.
Sweet Love on high, lead on where shepherds are, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabbbbbbX cdccdeeeaaeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011110001 1111111101 1101110101 1001010111 10101010101 11100101 01011111 10110101 11010101 101111111010 0101010101 0101111101 0101010101 1011110101 1111010101 1101110011 0111110101 1101010111 1101011101 11110101 1010101 110011111 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 487
- Average number of words per stanza: 90
- Amount of lines: 23
- 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; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word past is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines are is repeated).
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