This is an analysis of the poem There Is No Need For Me To Discuss A Love that begins with:

If you can not talk to me,
About those feeling that deeply affect you......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABC adeccXdC FXge FXXXgC ABCXdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,8,4,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111101 01110110011 10111100101 0111101 10101001 11101 1101 01010011 00011101 00101011001 10111100101 110110111 00000101011 11010111010 10111001 110110111 01010100 011110110101100 01001010 1111111010 10111100101 0111101 01110110011 10111100101 110 11110101 00110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • 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; me, you, to are repeated.

    The author used the same words if, how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word love at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of There Is No Need For Me To Discuss A Love;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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