This is an analysis of the poem Put Yourself On A Diet Of Love that begins with:
Put yourself on a diet of love.
And recognize the meaning of forgiveness....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABC ABDe ABfX ABc ABCdg ABDG AEAE DGhAEAE ADCg DGhAEAE DgXhAFAFhAFAF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,4,3,5,4,4,7,4,7,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110101001 11010100010 0101110 110101001 11010100010 101110011 110111110 110101001 11010100010 1010100 001001000 110101001 11010100010 101110101110010 110101001 11010100010 0101110 1011101 11010111 110101001 11010100010 1010101 111011100 110101001 11010100 110101001 11010100 1010101 111011100 1 110101001 11010100 110101001 11010100 110101001 101110011 0101110 11 1010101 111011100 1 110101001 11010100 110101001 11010100 1010101 001001101 1 110101001 1111101 110101001 1010011 1 110101001 1111101 110101001 1010011
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 57
- 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; of is repeated.
The author used the same words put, you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word nibbling at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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