This is an analysis of the poem Broken Love that begins with:
MY Spectre around me night and day
Like a wild beast guards my way; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eebb bbff ggff aahh ddii eejj bbcc hhjj bbjj iiee kkdd jJal mmhh jJalXladd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011111 1011111 11010101 10100111 01001101 1110111 1010101 11010101 11111001 1000111 1010111 1110101 1110111 1010111 1010011 1110101 10011111 110011 11011101 10111001 10111111 1011111 110110111 01110101 11011011 1011101 10010101 1010111 1110111 11100101 1110111 111101101 1111111 1111011 1111111 11111101 1010101 1110101 1110111 1110111 1010101 1110011 1010111 1111011 10101111 11101 1011101 1110101 1110001 1110001 1011101 1011101 1110111 11100101 1110100 01000100 1011101 01011101 1010101 000100011 11010111 11100101 1110111 010100100 10110100 10111011 1111001 0011001
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; my, with, and, loves, when, thou, wilt, sins, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
The author used the same word seven at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines eternity is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word grave at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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