This is an analysis of the poem Love Is Not All that begins with:

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbdedeff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1011001111 1101010101 1101010111 1111111101 1111010101 1101110101 11001010101 10111110101 011010010010 1111110101 11111101010 11010011111 11010000111 0110111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 622
  • Average number of words per stanza: 125
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nor, and, sink are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nor is repeated.

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