This is an analysis of the poem Love Poem that begins with:
Speak earth and bless me with what is richest
make sky flow honey out of my hips...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXb aXccXaXdab acdXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,10,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101010 111101011 1010 110010 1110101 1111110011 11001010 101001 101 0011 0110101 1010011010 111 10000100 1101 101101 101 1111001 10110 01
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, on, over are repeated.
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- summary of Love Poem;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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