This is an analysis of the poem The Beggar's Valentine that begins with:
Kiss me and comfort my heart
Maiden honest and fine. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abcb dbeb fgag hbcb Abbb ebib Xjhj ibCb Chbh Chbh Ccfc cfXf eeaeXcada
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011 101011 110101 111001 1001001 100111 100111 101011 100111 11101110 1101101 11011010 100111 1101011 101101 100101 1111011 1111001 101011 110101 00101001 11111001 11001011 1100001 0100111 0100101 0100100 11011011 111111 111001 000111 10101101 000111 10101111 100101 0111101 000111 10100101 1010111 1111111 000111 10111111 101001001 111101 1101101 011101 010111 111111 010001 100101 100101 100111 100101 10111101 1110111 00101101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, your, the, these, mother are repeated.
The author used the same words nevertheless, this at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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