This is an analysis of the poem Love Beyond Keeping that begins with:
She had a box
with a million red bandanas for him....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcb adcdefXcgfaegad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 0010111011 11001 1111110 1011110111 11100111 101101001 1101011101 010101100110 001101 111010111001 000110 110101011 001111 10111010110 101101101 01110 1011 01010011 010110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 323
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).
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- summary of Love Beyond Keeping;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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