This is an analysis of the poem So Unsure! Of Love that begins with:
I can not trust that love,
You claim you have for me....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCBD BD ABXc EFGF ahXege ABCBD BDiaiXb EFGF HaeXHbeah
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,2,4,4,6,5,7,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 111111 1010001010 10111 10100110 00011111 11101100100 111111 111111 1110010 11010101 11111101 110011 10110 1011 101111111 11010001 101001 111101 111011 11001 111111 111111 1010001010 10111 10100110 00011111 11101100100 1001 1111101 11010001 11111 101 11111101 110011 10110 1011 110111 1101 1111 110111 101 101 01 100101010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 45
- 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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, why, too are repeated.
The author used the same words i, too at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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