This is an analysis of the poem Love's Infiniteness that begins with:
If yet I have not all thy love,
Dear, I shall never have it all,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdbbb bebefcfcbbb dgdgddddbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01111111 11110101 1101110101 1110110101 1111011101 1111110111 11110101 11010111 011101010 1101110101 11110111 10111011 11111111 1001111011 1101001101 11110101101 0101110111 01110111 10111111 11011110100 0111011101 11111101 1111111 11111111 11111100101 1111110101 11110011111 011101110100 1101111101 011111010100 1101011100 1101010111 01110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 447
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 33
- 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; i, and, all, have, thou are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines all is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word all 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 all connects the lines.
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