This is an analysis of the poem A Love Song that begins with:
I gave her a rose in early June,
Fed with the sun and the dew,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBabcbdB aBabcbcBXaBabcbdB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110010101 1001101 11011001001 010011111 010011101 1111011 1001011001 111111111 111010101 1001101 11011001001 010011111 010011101 111001011 1001111011 111111111 00110101 1001101 111101001 010110111 0111001001 11101011 1011011001 111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- 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, love, i, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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