This is an analysis of Love's Secret by William Blake.

Never seek to tell thy love,
Love that never told can be;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abaX acXc bbXb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1010111 1110110 1010111 1001000 11111111 110111 10010101 11001 1111101 010011 1001000 110001
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

i, told, my

Anaphora

i

Anadiplosis

love