This is an analysis of the poem Degrees Of Love that begins with:

When your eyes opened to mine eyes,
Without desire, without surprise,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbb aacbbXaacbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 11110011 010100101 11110101 11011110 11011101 11110111 11110101 11010100 11110100 01010101 111100111 01010101 010100100 11011100 10011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • 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; with, love are repeated.

    The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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