This is an analysis of the poem Sing To Me Your Love Songs that begins with:
Sing to me your love songs.
And I will sing to you, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABab cBbdX BbeXb Bfaggd cAbb cad XgfXgef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,6,4,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111 110101 110101000 111111 1011111 110101 00111 0110100 10000101010 1111 1101 11010010 1011 1101101 1111 1101 0110100 1101 1001 00110100 1 101111 11101 011011 1 1010111 10101000 1100111 01001 01011101 1011111 11010 010101101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; i, sing are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, sing are repeated.
The author used the same words sing, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase sing connects the lines.
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