This is an analysis of the poem I Gave My Heart To A Woman that begins with:
I gave my heart to a woman –
I gave it her, branch and root.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb bcXc adXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110010 1100111 1111110 110101 1001110 1100101 1101010 1110101 10011011 1111001 11101110 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 12
- 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; she, it, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, she are repeated.
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