To Love To Hate To Leave by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem To Love To Hate To Leave that begins with:

With a love to write,
I do it....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AAbXXXXX AAcXXaXa XbbcbddXXcbbacdda
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00101 110 001011 1011001011 1101001101 011001010 10111001 1110100100010 00101 110 11100111101 00101010 10101001010 0110010001000 111011100101 101100010 0010111 1100100 110101001100 0110101101001 10110101101010 01010111101 111100010101 010100100010 1 111010 010110011011 1110011110010 010111001 1100101 011011111111 0010001001010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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 is repeated.

    The author used the same word with at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of To Love To Hate To Leave;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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