This is an analysis of the poem The Old Love that begins with:
I
You love me, only me. Do I not know? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccbbccbcdecde XaccaaXcaaddXff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 1111011111 0101111011 10110010101 10001010111 01010100101 10010011101 1101011111 1101110111 1111011011 1111111101 11111100101 1101101101 1111110101 1110100111 1 01010010101 1101111101 1101111001 1101111101 10110000111 1111010110 1111110001 01011001101 1111011011 0101001101 1011001101 1101110110 0101110101 0111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 621
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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 word i is repeated.
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