This is an analysis of the poem This Has Got To Be For The Love! that begins with:
Do they wish to impress?
Or do they live just to do it, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XXXb bbaXb aX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 111001 11111010 11001100 101101 10010010 010010010010 00111 1101111 0100111110 01111 01111 10101010 0110101 10 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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