This is an analysis of the poem If No Love Is, O God, What Fele I So? (Sonnet 102) that begins with:
If no love is, O God, what fele I so?
And if love is, what thing and which is he? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXXX XXXXXXb XabaaXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0110111111 1010111101 01000101011 0001010101 1100011100 110011011001 1111011101 1011110111 01010110111 01011100111 11111100111 11111111 110001110 101110100 1011101100 1010110011 1100100111 1001100101 101010101 10100110 1101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 307
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 21
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; if, love, that, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word if is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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