This is an analysis of the poem Forever that begins with:
He heard it first upon the lips of love,
And loved it for love's sake;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabXXXbcXcXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010101 110111 0101111111 1111 0101011101 01010011010 01010100110 1111100 1101010101 011111 0101010001 1101001 1100010101 11010111010 0101010110 111100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 601
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; nor, to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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- summary of Forever;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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