This is an analysis of the poem The Meaning Of Love that begins with:

Both light and shadow
are the dance of Love....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbXbababXbXba
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 11111 10101 1111 0001000110 10110101000 110 111110011 11010001110 1111101011 111010 1111010101 1001001 110101111 1001001100 10101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 440
  • Average number of words per stanza: 82
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

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

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  • summary of The Meaning Of Love;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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