This is an analysis of the poem Do Not Ask, My Love..... that begins with:
Do not ask, my love, for the love we had before:
You existed, I told myself, so all existence shone, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabccdebfXbcfddeba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111111011101 10101111110101 1111101111 0111001011 011111011 11111111010 110111110101 01110101101 10011001 0111010100 10011101110 10110101110 10001101 10001010 1101011111 1101111111 01010110011 1100101 11011111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 839
- Average number of words per stanza: 153
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines do is repeated).
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