This is an analysis of the poem I Ask You, Love that begins with:
I ASK you, love, to understand but this.
For if you knew how I do love you, naught...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dede cfcf gXeg chXh icic Xgag ijij bkbk X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010110 1011111111 1110110100 11110100011 1101101101 1101010101 0101010001 0101010101 10010111001 01110101010 0101111111 00111110010 1101110101 11110010100 1011010101 1111000101 0101010011 1101011001 11001101010 01000010011 1111110111 11111111010 00010010101 01010011010 01011111000 111101110 1101010101 011000010 1011110101 1101010101 1011110101 0101000101 1111011111 1111010111 0100010111 1101110101 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; you is repeated.
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- summary of I Ask You, Love;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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