This is an analysis of the poem Love Seems To Have Stopped that begins with:

No home...
Was quickly felt to feel that way....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCABCdbbb ABCABCdeb CdCdEFC CdCdEFXABCcdCdEFCeF
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,9,7,19,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 11010111 10101010 11 11010111 10101010 1 10101101 11 0101 11 11010111 10101010 11 11010111 10101010 1 101011001 11 101111111 1 01101111 1 1011011010 10101 1011011 101111111 1 01101111 1 1011011010 10101 11 11010111 10101010 10101111111 1 01101111 1 1011011010 10101 1011011 101011011010 10101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; to, and, love are repeated.

    The author used the same words no, people at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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  • summary of Love Seems To Have Stopped;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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