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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