This is an analysis of the poem On Love that begins with:
TO the assembled folk
At great St. Kavin’s spoke ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb ccdefd gghiih ccjjjj ggkiil bXjccj XXghhg hhmhhm fXjiij iighhg ffcllc nnoggo jjghhX bbbefb hhghhg klpmmp llaXga ccfccf hhdcmd iicmmc ggggggXjjflkf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 000101 111101 110101101 111111 110111 1111110111 110101 110011 11111100110 011100 010011 11011011010 110101 010000 0100110111 100101 110101 1111010111 111111 010101 0111010001 011011 100101 1011110101 011111 010101 0111001100 101100 010111 1001100101 011111 010101 1011110011 110111 100101 1001010001 110111 110011 1101010111 010101 110001 1001010001 000101 010111 1101010001 000101 110101 1001010101 101111 1100100 1101010101 110101 011101 1011110001 111111 110111 0001100011 100111 011111 0101101111 101111 010101 0101110101 110011 110101 1101010101 011011 110001 1111010111 101101 110101 1101010111 011111 1100111 1101110111 111101 011011 0101111110 111111 101101 10010010101 1011010 011101 1101110001 110101 110001 1001001101 110101 100111 0101010111 110100 010110 0101010101 100100 0100111 1101110101 110111 110101 1101110101 110111 110101 1101000101 110011 001101 1101010101 110111 110111 1001111111 110101 101111 1101010111 110111 111101 1101110101 111101 110001 11111111001 010011 010111 1101011111 111110 110101 0101010111 010111 111101 10010100001 100101 011111 0100110101 1011001 110110 0101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 132
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, one, and, what, love are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, the, what, and are repeated.
The author used the same words to, what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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