This is an analysis of the poem If It Wasn'T For The Love that begins with:
If it wasn't for the love,
To me others showed and expressed......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcd abebb FEc FEgebgbed ebX Xhfh eXebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,3,9,3,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0010101 01101101 11101001 1010001 001100 00110111 01101101 11010101001 1101101 10111 11 10 0111 11 10 0010111111 10111 0111001100 111010 11101 0100011010 1110101 001010101101 1011010 110010100 111011010 0010111 1110110101 00100111010101 001101111101 111101011111 1010011101 001000 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; would, have are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same words if, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of If It Wasn'T For The Love;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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