Love Song: I And Thou by Alan Dugan: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Love Song: I And Thou that begins with:

Nothing is plumb, level, or square:
the studs are bowed, the joists ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaXbXccbbcdefXbfegXgdXcddechch
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 31,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011011 011101 110110111 101010101 11111 11100100 11011 11110011 0111101 11101 11111 1100111 100101 101101 011101 111101 00011011 010101 1010111 111101 011111 10110101 110001 1110110 11011 010001011 111111 0011111 11110111 11010101 01010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 916
  • Average number of words per stanza: 180
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; myself, for, it, i are repeated.

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

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