This is an analysis of the poem A Match that begins with:
If love were what the rose is,
And I were like the leaf, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABccabAB DEffdeDE GHccghGH IJaXijIJ KJaakjKJXCEccceCE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010 110101 1111010 0111010 11110010 110111 0101010 110101 0101011 110101 0101110 0111110 0101111 111111 0101011 110101 0101110 111101 1111010 1111010 0101110 1100101 0101110 111101 0101010 110101 1111110 0101110 1101110 110111 0101010 110101 0101010 110101 1101110 1111010 1111010 110111 0101010 110101 0101010 110101 1111010 1101010 1101010 110101 0101010 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Match;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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