This is an analysis of the poem In Love For Long that begins with:
I've been in love for long
With what I cannot tell...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dXdXbb aeafgg gegXff hihiaa jkjkeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111 011101 100101 100100 111111 011101 0011001 101100 110101 010101 01111 100101 001101 111100 101010 010101 111101 10011 010101 01001010 101101 0101110 010101 10011 110010 110101 100100 100111 01011 10111 010101 111111 100101 010101 110011 010101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; being, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines love is repeated).
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