This is an analysis of the poem Promises Of Love that begins with:
Promises of love...
Who's gonna give it and who gets it....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABABCBDB abXXbXX ABCBDB ABABcbDbXABAba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,6,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10001 110101110 110001 110110100 010001 01001011 01010 01001110 000010101 1100 0 0001 11110 001000111 110010101 110001 110110100 010001 01001011 01010 01001110 10001 110101110 110001 110110100 010001 111100010 01010 1100011010 10001 110101110 110001 101010 0000101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; promise, it, of, to, promises, love are repeated.
The author used the same word promises at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word honest at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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