This is an analysis of the poem The Passionate Pilgrim that begins with:

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When my love swears that she is made of truth,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbcdededfdfaa Xghghhfhffhfhee Xaeiejajackckcl XmkmkgagienenfX ajfjfcflfngnndd akfkfmkmkaoaofX Xhihinn fdfdXX XXddnn XananplplflfXkk Xjjfhchcbgbgkk lXdfdaa jhjhaa anonoXcXclnlnaa Xngngeofoadad Xfifinn fXflee Xgagaqr hnhXXX Xececmm ieierqXkckcqq
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,15,15,15,15,15,7,6,6,15,14,7,6,15,13,7,6,7,6,7,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1111110101 1101011111 11111110001 1000011100 1101011111 1111100101 1101001101 1001010111 11001111101 11001111111 1111000101 1101110101 1111011101 1111011100 1 1111010101 1111010111 1101000111 11010010101 01110111110 1011010011 11011100010 1001000011 1101110011 0111110101 1101011011 1111000101 0111111101 11110101011 1 010100100011 1101111100 0111001100 1111011100 0101101101 11001011011 11110101001 11101110101 1111110100 1111110111 0101010100 0101001101 0111110111 0111010101 1 1101010101 0101010111 01010100101 1111111101 1111000101 1111000101 0101111111 1011110100 1101000101 11010101010 0101011101 111111001010 11110111101 11110111110 1 011111111101 110111010101 101111011101 110111011101 100101110111 111101111101 010001011101 11011111101 1100111110110 100111111101 11101011101010 1101010101110 010111111111 01101011101 1 1101110101 1101100111 1101010101 0101010101 1011010101 0110110101 1101110101 1001110110 1011110101 1111010111 01110101001 1111010111 1100100111 11011111101 1 10111111110 11011101110 10111111010 10111111010 01010101010 11011100010 0101110111 01110101110 1101011111 10110111110 10010101100 01010111010 11011101010 11111111100 11011111010 11111111010 10010101010 10011100010 1 0101110001 11110101010 1101011111 011100111010 10010111001 0101110101 1001110101 1101011101 110010101001 1101010101 1101011101 10010101100 1101011101 1111110101 1 1101101101 1011010111 1101010111 0111010111 1001010111 1101011100 0101111111 10111110111 1011110001 1001010001 1011111101 110111111 1101110101 1 111100101110 10011100001 110111011010 1101111111 1011110101 1111010111 1111111111 1111110010 1111111101 111110011 1111110101 1001110101 1 10010101010 10010101011 11010111010 11110011101 101111111011 1111010001 1011111111001 1001111101 1011111111 10011001010 111110111 11110101010 1111110101 0111111101 1 1111101010 10101010101 11101111010 1110111101 1010110101 1010101 1011110111 1011101 111011111011 1111101 111011111011 1101111 1 1001011100 0101110100 01011110101 0101110100 01000101010 11010101110 1111111101 1101110001 1101110101 1101101101 11010101101 0101010111 1 0101110011 1101111101 11010010101 0101010101 100111101011 111111110010 1111010011 01110110110 110110011111 110010111010 1001111111 1101110101 1 1111110001 1111010101 1111010101 1101010011 110101111111 110101101 11110110010 1101110101 01111110110 110111111 101010101010 11111111011 0100011111 11110100010 0111101101 11111101010 11110101111 11011110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 428
  • Average number of words per stanza: 82
  • Amount of lines: 224
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, i, love, my, to, and, that, thy, on, as, her, both, in, ', youth, like, full, of, age, good, night are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, if, she, one, and, youth, a, as, 't are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word tomorrow at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase her connects the lines.

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