This is an analysis of the poem Advertising Free Love that begins with:
How many lovers does it take,
To know one love....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABACD ABXXX ABACD BEEEBEEE ABACDXBABBABBEABBABEbAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,8,23,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 0111 01011 101 01010100101 11010101 0111 00100 110 01101111 11010101 0111 01011 101 01010100101 101010101011 10101001111100 111100 111100 101010101011 10101001111100 111100 111100 11010101 0111 01011 101 01010100101 101010101011 11101 0111 101010101011 11101 0111 101010101011 10101001111100 11101 0111 101010101011 11101 0111 10101001111100 1101010101011 11101 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; getting, it, they, not, love, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words people, they are repeated.
The author used the same word how 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 it, love are repeated).
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