This is an analysis of the poem Donated Love that begins with:

I have already donated love.
And volunteered heartbreak....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbcXbd eXfe ffdfdfdd Acg gXXXhaccc cXhdcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,8,3,9,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101101 110111 0011010100 10111001 11010101 0110011011 1101110010 11100100 10011111 010001010 101111010101 1111 10111101 1001111 101011101 101111111 1011100101000 110101011001 110101101 0100101 100100111001 11110111 110110010101 1011101011010 11001 11101001 01111 011000101 01111100101 1101111010 11111001101 1101011101 01000001001 0111101 00101011 11001111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, i, to, love are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of Donated Love;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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