This is an analysis of the poem True Love that begins with:
It is true love because
I put on eyeliner and a concerto and make pungent observations about the great issues of the day...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcAXdAXe AebAXfAgb AhcAhbAXfdg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001101 1111101001011101010010110001 101111111 101 111011001110 1011110100001011 101 1101110111110101010111010010001 111111 01101 011110010111100101101101101 11011111 101 1010011000100 1001101111101000010100 101 0010110111101110110101 11111 01101 1110101011011101100101001010101011100101 110111101 101 111110011011001001001101110111111011 110111101 101 0110111011010101011010010111010010010 11110 111 11
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 475
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, he, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The author used the same word it's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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