This is an analysis of the poem Love Motives that begins with:

To You.
SO you have come at last! ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccbbddbBddeeffBgeed dhhgbiiiiddbeddeeeee jbbhhaajkaaggeekgllh heegflleeeefgaallbbg eccaaddebddmmbbbbB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,20,20,20,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 01 111111 1110101 11010100111001001 101101 1010010011001011 11001111 10111111 1111111 111111 010111 1001000111100111 1010011 001110101010101 11011111 101110101 111111 111101 1111001 1001110010100000 1111001 10010101100101 110110111 1101111111 110101 1100101 110111 101110111111100111 110111 100101010100101 11001011001 010111011 0100101 011101 110101 110111110100111 1101101 11111001111100100 01000111 110100101 0100101 110111 1101011 1101101011101001 111101 1101000010101111 111011111 1010111101 111111 11011001 01110101 11011101111111 110111 1101001011110111 111100111 1110110000 1011001 1111111 111111 101110011101100101 10101001 10001001010100001 101001001 0101101 111111 111111 111111 1101110110100101 10111001 010010100110101111 111101000 11001001 1101011 100101 1111101 01110111011111111 111101 0100100111110111 011110101 010111111 01000101 011001000 110101 110010010001101101 1101101 11001100101011011011 1110100111 10110111 0101000 1111111 1110011 11001001001100111 101011101 1100111101110101 1111100111 1100101101 1111111 1011 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 858
  • Average number of words per stanza: 155
  • Amount of lines: 99
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; as, with, he, that, you, and, i, of, she, each are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, like, in are repeated.

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