This is an analysis of the poem Love Is A Terrible Thing that begins with:

I went out to the farthest meadow,
I lay down in the deepest shadow; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa XX XX bb cc bb ddX bb XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,3,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111001011 111001011 11110011010 11001100110 110011000 11101111110 111010101 110101011 10011111 1001111001 1011111101 11111100101 10100111111 1100111111 110011 10011111111111 1101100111 10110110111 10010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 89
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, there are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).

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