This is an analysis of the poem I do not write of love that begins with:
I do not write of love: I am no lover.
I do not write of beauty: I have no woman....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacbbc ddeXXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11110111110 111101011110 111101001010 101111101110 1111101010110 10010111111 1111010111 1011110100110 11110110101 11010100101 110111100101 110101011010 101101010010 11011010011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 310
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, not, write, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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