This is an analysis of the poem This Love Of Life I'Ve Come To Know that begins with:
I did not come to know love,
To rid myself of it to hate....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCB DEFE beXX ABCB dcbc DEFE XggX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1011011 01110001 101100101 010111001 101101 001100111 10110101 0011110001 101101 01011010 1101110101 1101010111 1011011 01110001 101100101 010111001 11 11011011111 01111111 001001011001 101101 001100111 10110101 0011110001 1011101 001001001 1111101 1010101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; to, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- history of its creation;
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