This is an analysis of the poem Love Song that begins with:
Dear absurd child- too dear to my cost I've found-
God made your soul for pleasure, not for use:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacdXd bddb acca effe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10111101111 1111110111 0111110101 0100010101 1011110101 1011110111 110100101100 10011101011 01010100101 0101110101 1011010111 1101100100111 011011101011 00101010101 1100011101 01110111001 111110101110 1111011111 1101010111 111010111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Love Song;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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