This is an analysis of the poem Sabbath, My Love that begins with:
greet my love with wine and gladsome lay;
Welcome, thrice welcome, joyous Seventh Day! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bbbc dddc Xeec fXfc Xggc hhhc aX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011101 1011010101 11011111 00010111 11010111 11111011 1011000101 11101011 10111101 11011011 00101101110 111100111 11111111 10111011 01110101 110111010 11011101 11011011 1011111101 11010111 10111111 110101011 101010101 01110101 01001101 111011011 1111110101 110011101010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; day is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word love at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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