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

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…
In life after life, in age after age, forever....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBaaB XbXcb XbcXb XbXab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111010011001 0110101101010 11111110101001 111101111101101 0110101101010 010111100010111 0101010011010 1111110001001101 100100111001001 101110010010010 111110110111001 101011011010 111011100101001 110010011001011 11101101101010 010011110110101 010111111010 1010110101010101 010001110001101 10101001011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, age, of, and, universal are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word forever at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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

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