This is an analysis of the poem Love Once Known that begins with:
Where else can I take this depth of love?
What steps should I take, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDEfG AXXhhX ABCDEfG XgafdXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110101 11111 001101010 11110111101 1100111 111100001 010011110001 111110101 100111001 010 11011111110 110011111001 11111110111 111110101 11111 001101010 11110111101 1100111 11110001 010011110001 1011110 01011 111111001111 1101010001001100 1111101 11010 11111101001100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, it, as are repeated.
The author used the same word where at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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