This is an analysis of the poem Love Cannot Die that begins with:
In crime and enmity they lie
Who sin and tell us love can die,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAbBccAA ddaXeebBXeeddeeAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110011 11111111 11010101 11010111 010011101 011101001 010010011 11111111 11011101 01010101 01010101 11111100 01110101 01011101 11110101 11010111 01011101 01011101 01010001 11000101 01011100 01110101 010010011 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, that, love, sweetest are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, the are repeated.
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- summary of Love Cannot Die;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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