This is an analysis of the poem A Love Secret that begins with:
Love has its secrets, joy has its revealings.
How shall I speak of that which love has hid?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaBA ccac XcdX XebX efcX gbfX fXgX hiei fXdX Caha XdaX CXgX XagX XaBA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010110100 1111011111 01010101011 1101101100 101011111010 1001110001 11110111110 1110011101 11111111010 1011010101 111101100110 1101110011 111101111010 1101010010 11011111111 1100111101 11011101010 1010001111 11110111110 1001110110 11011111010 01010111111 11011101010 1101110001 10111111010 0101001111 10110111110 1101110101 101011111010 1101011111 00100111010 0011011110 11010101010 1111111111 11011101110 11011111010 11110111010 1101011111 10010101110 1101110111 01011111100 1001011101 11100111010 11111111110 11110111010 1011010101 10111111010 0101011011 11001111010 1011011011 11111111110 11010101110 11010110100 1100110111 01010101011 1101101100
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; has, thou, what, grief, she, her, i, it, not, my, '' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, what, i 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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