This is an analysis of the poem Love Song that begins with:
My own dear love, he is strong and bold
And he cares not what comes after. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac dcdcefef XeXXdcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110111 11111110 011110101 10111010 1010010101 10111011 111110111 11111011 111111111 10111111 011100101 10111111 110101111 10100010 111110111 11110010 111110101 11111010 110100100 00110010 110110101 11111011 111110111 111100011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 299
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, he, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word as is repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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