This is an analysis of the poem Love Much that begins with:

Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.
Cast sweets into its cup whene’er you can.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababb cXcaa bdbdd bebee fgfgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101000 1100011011 11111111110 100110101 1101000111 11110011010 1101010110 11111101010 0101011111 10001010101 11110001110 11011100111 10111111010 1101010111 1001011101 11111101010 1100111101 11111001010 1111010111 1101111101 11101101010 1100101001 11110111110 1111110101 1011111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; love, on, your, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word love is repeated.

    The author used the same word love at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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