This is an analysis of the poem Show Your Love that begins with:
Don't just say you love.
To expect others should know, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcadacdX aXXaXedX Xaacf aghbd fiX cXe X edfe XdfXccX fh X ghiXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,5,5,3,3,1,4,7,2,1,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 0011011 11101000010 111 1011001 1101001 11010010110 1110111 001101 11100101001 00110101101 1111110 11110111 111101010 11011111 1110010010011 111101 0110111010 101 11110011011 010101 100011111 1111 00110101011 11100 10111 010110010100 1011 10 1110111 11100 101011 101110011101 10111 1101 1110101 111001001 0010101 1 11111110 01010 1101 0101 010011011 01011111111 1101101111 11011 1011 0110111011 1011111 01000111 00101010001 0010111100
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 53
- 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, you, them are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
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