This is an analysis of the poem Love's Deity that begins with:

I long to talk with some old lover's ghost,
Who died before the god of love was born.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdd eaeaXdd fXfXcdd dgdgddd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101011101 1101010111 1101111111 1111011101 1101010100 1111010100 11101111 1111111111 11001111000 1111011101 0101100001 10010010000 1000110100 11110111 11001010101 0111001111 0101010001 1001000101 10110010100 01001010110 11101111 10110011101 1111011111 1111110111 0101010111 11110110101 1101111110 01111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 286
  • Average number of words per stanza: 57
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; to, i, love are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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