This is an analysis of the poem Killing The Love that begins with:

I am the love killer,
I am murdering the music we thought so special,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacdecadfghgcid idjdkigblb ajhdeciej ahXXclgleffkcidef
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,10,9,17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110 1110001011110 1101110110 1110011110111 11101101 10101001 1111110 11101010 111001011 11001001101 11101110010 11101101 100110 110010111 011010 111010 11101001 10110 10111011000110 1110101011 10011 0101 111110 11111 101110 111011101 1110100010 1111110001110 110001 1111110 1111101 10100001 110111101 011111110 101011101 101010 0110101 1111 111 110010 1111010 11101010100 10011010 101011 01011 110011 00100011 101011010 11010 1001 10111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 51
  • 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; i, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, i'll are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines by is repeated).

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