This is an analysis of the poem Love From The North that begins with:
I had a love in soft south land,
Beloved through April far in May;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb abdb ebfX XXaX dbXX cbXX ebfb XbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010111 010110101 11011101 11010111 11001111 11110111 11010101 11011101 0101011010 010111011 11010011 11110101 11110001 11111101 11010111 01010101 100111101 11111111 10110111 11110101 11011001 110101001 11110101 01101111 11100111 11110101 101101101 11011111 11110111 01011111 111101110 10110111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, me, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words nay, ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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