Poem Analysis of To Her Steady Lover by Jibanananda Das for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem To Her Steady Lover that begins with:

There is no meaning in living—I don't say this.
There is meaning for some, may be for all—may be a perfect meaning....

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Rhyme scheme: abccd XdaXc deef bcXXcaXXf
Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,4,9,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 101100101110 10101110111000110 11101101101 001000101 01010101 01011010101110 0101011110100101010 111111001 11011010101 0110101010010 101101011111010 01101110101101010 001001010110110 10100100101100100 11101001010010 0100100 10100110010110101 11010001001110010001 1101110100010111 10010100101 101111111010101 01011010100
Amount of stanzas: 5
Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
Average number of words per stanza: 43
Amount of lines: 22
Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; meaning, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, the are repeated.

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To Her Steady Lover by Jibanananda Das: poem analysis

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