This is an analysis of the poem Love Songs that begins with:
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I LOVE my life, but not too well ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbcB BabaB BdbdB Xeded fgfgfg Xhihi adad ijijXffff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,5,5,6,5,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1 11111111 010011010 10110101 100011110 11111111 11111111 01011101 10110111 010001001 11111111 11111111 01010111 01011111 01110111 11111111 1 11010111 0101110 11010101 1111010 01111111 0111010 01111101 0111010 11010101 1101110 1 100101 111111 101101 010011 100111 110101 111111 101110 1111001 101101 010001 101101 111111 010101 111111 011111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; to, but, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, it are repeated.
The author used the same word i 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 well is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word well at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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