This is an analysis of the poem De Amore that begins with:
Shall one be sorrowful because of love,
Which hath no earthly crown,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbabbcddcd effeXXgghiiXi cffcbbjjhhfcfcXXhh kaakbbXllX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,13,18,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101000101 111101 111101 0111001101 010101 1111010001 01110110 111101 101011 110011010101 0111 1111000111 111101 01101 0111010101 011101 1111001100 010001 01011100101 0111010001 110101 010100 1111011001100 0111 1101010101 111001 100101 0101000101 1101001 1101010101 011101 10000101001 010101 0101011101 111101 1111 0101010111 0100011 110111 11110100 100101010101 0101 1101110101 101101 0001001 1101011101 11111101 0101 111111 111101010001 101111 111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 427
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; be is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words which, though, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines own is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase lord connects the lines.
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