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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