This is an analysis of the poem Not Love that begins with:
I HAVE not yet I could have loved thee, sweet;
Nor know I wherefore, thou being all thou art,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa aba bcb cac ada ded efe fgf Xfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111111 111100110111 01001011001 11010101001 01111111010 1101010011 11110101010 0111111111 11011100110 11110011101 0101110001 010100100011 1111010111 1011001111 010010101101 1111011101 1101011101 1111010101 1111110111 0101111101 1101010101 1110111111 1101010101 01110010111 0111111110 0111010111 1101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, with are repeated.
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