This is an analysis of the poem Your Heart Has Trembled To My Tongue that begins with:
Your heart has trembled to my tongue,
Your hands in mine have lain,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaBCB dbdBCB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110011 110111 11011111 011101 11 011101 11011101 010101 11010111 110001 11 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word your is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word again at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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