This is an analysis of the poem Unlyric Love Song that begins with:

It is time to give that-of-myself which I could not at first:
To offer you now at last my least and my worst:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccbXXX bXXXdd bc X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,2,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 001011011111111 010111111111 100101 0111 01001101001 01101001 0100111010 01010000100100 110110010 1101110 111100101 1111110101 111101101001 001110101110 111101001 0101001 1101 1011 01011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; to is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.

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

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