This is an analysis of the poem Preferences Attached To Match Elation that begins with:

To know love,
Is to leave behind our fear and doubts....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbXccdXAcdbab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011 001011111 110010011111 11010 0010111 01101001010 011 0011101010 110000101010 010101 011011 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; to is repeated.

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

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