This is an analysis of the poem Take Your One-Sided Love that begins with:

Take your one-sided love away today.
I've already had all sides of it....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacddbeXe cDXDdbDff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010101 101011100 111011101 0101100011 1101 11010111 1101 01011011001 11 11111001011 1101011001 111101 1001010111111 111101 11010001101 010110001001111 111101 01101010000100 111010110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 345
  • Average number of words per stanza: 67
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; take, to, love are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase love connects the lines.

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