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

When your love begins to wane,
Spare me from the cruel pain... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eebb ffff eedd bbff XXbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101 1100101 0111111 1111111 1010101 1011111 1010111 0110101 1011101 1111101 1110111 1111111 1000100 1001101 1110111 100111 1111101 1010101 1110001 1001110 1011111 0111111 1011111 1111111 1010101 1010110 11110111 1010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, by, you are repeated.

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

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

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