This is an analysis of the poem Love that begins with:
Love
Truth went forth on a search one day...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaaa bbX ccX ddX eeXXaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11110111 1101011111 1110110111 11010111 1010011101 1010101101 11010111 01010001 1101101010 0010011111 1111101101 10101101110 1010101010 0111001010 11101010 0111011001 10010101 1001011011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 19
- 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; he, and, ', 'love are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, 'love are repeated.
The author used the same word he 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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