This is an analysis of the poem Love Song that begins with:
My nights are painted bright with your dream, sweet love
and heavy with your fragrance is my breast. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXcdefffgfdgba afaXhebiifff aajfaggfXi dcikgXffdiXgbkjXag ejiXbi gcghafXXff efaa X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,12,10,18,6,10,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110101111 1100110011 1111011011 101110011 1110101 111111 11011011010 0101000101110 1111001011 111010101 0101101001 1101110001 111011111 111010010100 011011111 1010010001 11111011 010111010011 01110110111 11111000111 1001101010 101010011100 10111110011 101101010 1001000101 01001001101 101000101 101001001 11110111 1111101001 111100101 10111101 100110011 101100100101 11100011011 110100011011 00111111 01011101 11101011 10111001 1011010101 1011110010 1111010011 1101000101100 11101011 01110101 11101101 10110101011 00110100100 0001100110110 10111010011 1101100100010 0011011101 1101001101 111010011011 1110110010011 11001001000110 10100101101001 111100110101 11010101010010 11101011 1111101 0110111001 1001110011 0101111 01011111 110101010111 01011010 110001101 1011110010 001000101011 011010001011 111100100100 10100011 1011001001 11011100111 010101100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 403
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; my, with, your, of, pain, you, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, in, my, this, it are repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines love is repeated).
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- summary of Love Song;
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