This is an analysis of the poem The Life Of Love Xvi that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XbcdXc efgX hbigi cbjc bc j dckddbgdldjikh X ffdc cdjcfkc ccfib lXl j XXXj mbmdici feb dace dccameekkb Xjjk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,4,5,4,2,1,14,1,4,7,5,3,1,4,7,3,4,10,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01 110101110101 1010101100100 10101001110 1110011001000 1011101101 10101010111 10011010010110 11010111011 101110010100100 0101 01011011101 111011101 01010100101 101011000010 10110011001 1101011101010 100101011110 001001001110 00101010010101 1111111100111 011010010010 10 1110001101010 10100101011 110001 1110100110 10100010100 10111011 1111100100 10111101000 01011001010 1110101110 11101111010 0110011 110110011110 0001010001 10 11111010010 10100110101 10101011000 10001010 110101101011 1010101110 10010110100010 11101011101 11100011101 1010010101010 1101111 1101101011 1011010001 1101100101 110111101 110010 110101001010 101000101011 0101010100 10 110110100111 1101111101 100111110101 11000101010 10100100111 10101010100 0111 1011101010 1010000100101 10101011101 1111 10101110111 10111111011 11011100111 1101111110 10010011110 1101010110 01010 110110100110 1001011010010 011111100010 1101111010 111110111001 111 1101110111 101011111 111010110110 111101 111111010 111100010010 1110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 108
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and, of, our, to, me, with are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word let at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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

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