This is an analysis of the poem Loves Me? Loves Me Not? that begins with:
I shall rest no more on the fragrant mosses
Under great trees where the green bough tosses...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcccX bbbbccXX ccddccaa eecc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101010 1011101110 1001101110 1001011010 11111111010 1001001110 1111111110 1111111110 11111101110 101001110 1001101110 1011011110 11111101110 1011001110 1011001010 1101011110 1111111110 111001110 1101001010 1001001010 1101111010 1101111010 1111101110 1011011010 1001101110 1001001010 1001011110 1101111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, who, loves, of, them, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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