This is an analysis of the poem Self-Love that begins with:
He that cannot choose but love,
And strives against it still,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeXeXXadXdedecaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111 110101 1011101 111100 1110101 111101 11111101 111101 1111111 111111 11111111 1010101 1111111 0110111 1011110 1110 11110101 1101011 11111111 011111 0111101 111101 1011101 01111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 714
- Average number of words per stanza: 145
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, for are repeated.
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