This is an analysis of the poem Not Love Perhaps that begins with:
This is not Love, perhaps,
Love that lays down its life, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabcb ccddeeffXdeeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001101 111101 11010101 1011 110100101 1001011001010011 01110001011 11010111 110111010 1111001110 0101101101 11111111001 011010001 01001010001 0111111001 110100001 11101 01110111 01101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; for is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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