This is an analysis of the poem Never Give All The Heart that begins with:

NEVER give all the heart, for love
Will hardly seem worth thinking of... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXXccddXacc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 10110111 01011100 010010001 1011101 10110101 11011100 10110101 11010111 11111111 110111001 11110101 01111101 11101101 11110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 493
  • Average number of words per stanza: 96
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • 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.

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