This is an analysis of the poem For The Love Of Things that begins with:
For the love of 'things'...
People will deceive other people....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XAXAXABCc DXDcX XAXADbDbXABCc CXBCc CXBCc XACXBCcCXXCXXCX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,5,13,5,5,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101 100011010 11010101 100011010 00101 100011010 111011 1010111 1 101111 1100100101 101111 101 101010 10101 100011010 11010101 100011010 101111 0110100100 101111 0101010100 10101 100011010 111011 1010111 1 11 101 111011 1010111 1 11 101 111011 1010111 1 10101 100011010 11 101 111011 1010111 1 11 101 10101 11 101 10101 11 101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; people is repeated.
The author used the same word 'gimme at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of For The Love Of Things;
- central theme;
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- history of its creation;
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