This is an analysis of the poem O, How Our Love Is Murderous that begins with:
O, how our love is murderous,
The dearer something is to us...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABAcXdeaffgbXfdghfbbbXhfgfeecbbcbafAABA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110100 01010001 010110010 0101010 10110111 10110011 10011111 110100 11010001 01011101 100101 111101 11010111 110111011 01010101 0101011 11111001 100101 0111010 010101 1011111 101010 010101 01011 01010101010 1001 110100 1101010 110111010 011101 01011001 11110001 111101110 100101 101010100 10111011 11110100 01010001 010110010 0101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1270
- Average number of words per stanza: 228
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, it, pain are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, her, pain are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
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