This is an analysis of the poem No Used Or Borrowed Love that begins with:

No used or borrowed love,
Have I ever sat to wish......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcd bcedf abXc dfbXccdX aebb XX fX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,4,8,4,2,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111 1110101 010001 111101011 011010010 111101 011101111 1101011 101011 11010111 111011 111110010 1100010111 01111001110 1110101 101001110 1101 011110110 110 1111111 1110100 1111001 1101011001 1110101 1010011111 01010101 1 1010100101 0100111010 1011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • 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:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, to are repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of No Used Or Borrowed Love;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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