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

Your love taught me how to grieve,
And for centuries I needed a woman to make me grieve,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AABCDdXeddeefXb fXeeaXeXedbfeeeAABCD
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,20,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111101 111001100100111 110010 01111010101 1100100011101101 11101111010110 0111011001011001 01110101011110 0110110101 01110011001 011110010010 011101000110 111101010 111101011 11101101001 1010011010100 1111 101111010111 01111110101 0111111 0111 11111010100 01110110100101 001101 0010101 001 01001010001111110 11011110101001 1011101 01101011 1111101 111001100100111 110010 01111010101 1100100011101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 734
  • Average number of words per stanza: 147
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; me, to, my, taught, in, your, love are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines grieve is repeated).

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