This is an analysis of the poem How To Prepare For Love that begins with:

One never knows...
When love to them arrives to show....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbcAdbAbbAA cAXXeebAabAA cAdcdbAcbAcabAA AXbbaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,12,15,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101 11000101 1 1101 10111010 1 1101 100101101 1 1101 11101 1 1101 100111 1 1011101 0010111 1 1101 101011001 1 1101 11101 1 1101 011101 0111110 01110111 1 1101 11110111 1 1101 10101001 00101101101 1 1101 11101 1101 100111 1 10101 11 11101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
  • 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; it, one, never, knows are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words one, until 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.

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

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

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