This is an analysis of the poem Love's History that begins with:
Love, the baby,
Crept abroad to pluck a flower:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cccc XdXd dede fgfg afaf XXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010 10101010 11111110 111010 101 1010111 1111101 11101 101 10101010 0110101 1001110 101 1010101 1111101 11101 101 101010010 1010101 10111 1010 10010101 10111010 10101 1010 1010001 10101010 101010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; said, one, sang are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words one, sang are repeated.
The author used the same word love at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Love's History;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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