This is an analysis of the poem If Not For Love that begins with:
If not for love,
no love poems would have been written....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXcdc aadeaXcceAb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111 111011010 101101001 0101 1111 10011 1010101 111100001 0111110 0010111101 10101011101 1010001 101101001 110111111 0111 110001001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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.
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- summary of If Not For Love;
- central theme;
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