This is an analysis of the poem The Powers Of Love that begins with:
It lifts the poor man from his cell
To fortune's bright alcove; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaB cbccb dbddb ebeeb fbffB gbggbXcbccb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011001 010111 01011111 110010101 110111 11010101 111111 10111101 01110101 110101 010010101 011101 10010101 11010101 010101 10010101 0101001 11010101 10011101 111101 11010111 111101 01011101 11101111 110111 11011101 011001 01010101 01010111 010101 11010101 010101 11010101 01010101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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.
The poet repeated the same word love at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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