This is an analysis of the poem Unrequited Love that begins with:
In between another heartache faked.
It can be seen and felt although not faced....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaBCD aXdef eXffd AaBCD DeGD DeGDdDeGD aBB DeGDdDeGDXaBB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,4,9,3,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001010111 0101111111 111001010101 100101000101 11 001110011 00101001 111011011 1111010101 11101001011 010001000101 10101 10011101 0100100010 001001101 001010111 010111 111001010101 100101000101 11 1011001101 01 11010101 0010101 1011001101 01 11010101 0010101 01 1011001101 01 11010101 0010101 1 11110010 10101 1011001101 01 11010101 0010101 01 1011001101 01 11010101 0010101 1 11110010 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same words in, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines again is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word again at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase again connects the lines.
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- summary of Unrequited Love;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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