This is an analysis of the poem A Love Song that begins with:
Reject me not if I should say to you
I do forget the sounding of your voice, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cXcX dede afafXaeae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111011101 1101010011 1101111101 0101110101 1101010101 1001010100 11110111111 11010011000 1101111111 0101010101 0101010111 1101010111 1111110101 1111110101 1111110101 11111010111 11111010111 10110101001 10111101100 01110101011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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 words i, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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