This is an analysis of the poem The Need To Love that begins with:
The need to love that all the stars obey
Entered my heart and banished all beside.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb bXbb adad bbbb eeee fgfg cece bgbX fafX ahah
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110101 1011110101 1001011101 10010111101 01010001110 01110101001 11010100010 11111100101 1101010101 01110101000 1011111101 1101010001 0100011101 0111110101 1101110101 1101011101 1001110111 0101010101 1101010101 1111011111 1101010101 11010001101 1001010101 1001100101 1101010101 0101101101 0110010101 1111101101 11111101010 0011110010 01010100010 1101011101 1111011000 0111010111 1101010101 1101110010 11110101010 1111010101 10010101110 1101000100 1101011011 1111010001 1101010111 1100010100
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 44
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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