This is an analysis of the poem And Do You Think That Love Itself that begins with:
And do you think that love itself,
Living in such an ugly house,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcXccccdXd cac aX XXcXcbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,3,2,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 10011101 1101 1111 110101011 11011011 01010101 10110101 11011111 11110111 110101110 11010101 11111101 101111101 110110111 11011101 10001010110 10110111 010111010 11111111 10010101 11111101 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word our is repeated.
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