This is an analysis of the poem Then I Would Love You that begins with:

Were you to come,
With your clear, gray eyes ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdbdeXeff abXbcecXbXff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101 01111 1101010101 11010101 01111 11010101 11110101 11011111 1101101001 0101010111 11111 11111 1111 01111 101011101 01100101 01111 11011101 01011111 111111100 1010111101 1101010101 11111 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 393
  • Average number of words per stanza: 72
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; your is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, then are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).

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

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