This is an analysis of the poem All That Love Asks that begins with:
All that I ask, 'says Love, 'is just to stand
And gaze, unchided, deep in thy dear eyes; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbacc ddddcc XeeXbb faafXX ghXghh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111101 1110010111 1011110101 1001110011 0101111101 0111 11111111111 0111111111 1101011111 0101011111 1011011001 0111 1111011101 0111110101 1111000101 1111111100 1111110011 0111 11111111101 10110010101 1100011101 0111010011 0111110111 11110 1111110101 0111110111 010111111111 1101011101 1111100101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; i, that, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word all is repeated.
The author used the same word 'all at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of All That Love Asks;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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