This is an analysis of the poem Love Is Love that begins with:
I feel it when it's needed.
Love....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbCBDB CEAXD dffaf BFBFFF AbCBDB CEAXD BFBFFF dXADdBB dXADdBB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,5,6,6,5,6,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 1 111100 01 010110010 111101 1011100 101001 0111010 1101010 011101 0101010 10100 1110010010100 0101011101 111011100 101 111000100 101 110110100 1011101 0010011 1101010 1 111100 01 010110010 111101 1011100 101001 0111010 1101010 011101 101 111000100 101 110110100 1011101 0010011 1 1101010 0111010 011101 1 101 101 1 1101010 0111010 011101 1 101 101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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, love, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word love is repeated.
The author used the same word but 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 love is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word love at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase love connects the lines.
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