This is an analysis of the poem Love And Knowledge that begins with:
THOUGH you and I so long have been so near--
Have felt each other's heart-beats hour by hour, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaaba cddaac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111111011 111101110110 11011101010 1111011101 1111001001001 11101110101 00111101010 01111111101 11010110101 11010010101 1101110001 01010011101 1111111101 1101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 320
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; have, so, to, and, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word have is repeated.
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