This is an analysis of the poem In After Years that begins with:
LOVE is dying. Why then, let it die.
Trample it down, that it die more fast.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbcaa defefdX dbgbgdX fXhXhff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011101 100110111 100111101 100100101 1100100111 1011101111 10101 11101111 10111111 101110101 1101101001 11111111 111100100 10111 11111101 110110101 0111000111 011011101 11111111 1101101010 11101 111001001 011011111 1011101010 1111010110 1100100101 011110111 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, love, and, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, let, because are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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