This is an analysis of the poem To Love that begins with:
If, Cupid, Heaven is your home, you
are the child of Venus, Nectar and ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdXbaXXc X XXXXdXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,1,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100111 101010101 01011111 1111110 1111011 111101 10111101 01001111 10010110 10111110 011111101 1100 1101001110 11010010010 11011100100 1100100110100 110100110 1101100100 11010010100 11110010 1110010100 1101101 11010101100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; me, si, quid are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words si, quid, o are repeated.
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- summary of To Love;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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