This is an analysis of the poem Love Song that begins with:

O VERE mine lofe a sugar-powl,
De fery shmallest loomp ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXbcac dXXeXXXf XdXXfgXX XbXbeacX XXgXXgXg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 010101 11010101 110101 10110101 111101 0111111 101101 010010111 011101 110100100 111001 01010111 010111 01011111 111101 11011100 1101001 01110000 110101 01110001 110101 110101011 111000 0100010 111011 11011100 010101 110011101 110101 111000101 01000 1111110 110100 1101110 111100 1101011 110111 11110111 111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, vhen, she, dein, und are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words und, de, dein are repeated.

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  • summary of Love Song;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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