This is an analysis of the poem My Only Title that begins with:
My only title to her grace
Is her sad, too silent face;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaaEeffgghhXaee iijjbbkkajiibbeecceXeEffllbbllkkXeaallbbccggmmjjaaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,52,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010001 0011101 1110101 0111101 1110111 0011011 1011101 1111111 1111100 1111111 1010101 1010111 1011101 1110111 1111101 0110001 1010101 1001101 0011100 1011101 1111110 0110101 11100110 11100110 1111010 1001111 1110101 10101001 10011001 1101101 0110101 0110101 11111110 11100010 10101010 10111110 1110011 10101001 0010111 1010111 1001110 1111101 1111011 1010101 1011001 1110101 1110111 1111100 10101001 0010111 1011111 1011101 11110010 00101110 1010100 1010111 1011101 1011101 1110001 0010101 11100101 1110101 10011101 1111111 0010101 1011001 1111111 0110111 1111101 1110001 1110001 1010101 0111110 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1162
- Average number of words per stanza: 229
- Amount of lines: 75
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; her, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, such are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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