This is an analysis of the poem Let These Be Your Desires that begins with:
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself
But if your love and must needs have desires, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaa XbcXdbXdXXbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11110010100101 10111111010 1101010 011010101 110100001 0101011100 0010111101001 1011001100 01110011 11110101010 011011011011100 001111000101 1101001 10010011 101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 15
- 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, at are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines desires is repeated).
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- summary of Let These Be Your Desires;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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