This is an analysis of the poem O Love, Sweet Animal that begins with:
O Love, dark animal,
With your strangeness go...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcbadcXadeeabbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100 01101 110111 011100 011001 10001 101101 111110 11101 010111 110101 0100101 111111 10111 101010 111010 1110010 0111110 111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 449
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; her is repeated.
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