This is an analysis of the poem When Love Happens that begins with:

When love happens it happens!
Avoiding it is often, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbcdeffdXffcg Eccdgfgcc EbfXdeedcccd Aaf Aaehe AhdXdcf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,9,12,3,5,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110010 0100010 11010 10011001 01 101100 1100101 11111 1110100 0101010 01000100 0011101 1010101 1001 11110110 1100101 10101110 1010 01111 10101001 10111 011011 1001 1111 001101 1000111 110101 0111 11111 1010101 00111110 1 1001 00011 1110010 1011000 101 1110010 111111 001 1101110 1111 1110010 01010 1101 1111010 0001 10111010 100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 49
  • Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, to, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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

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  • summary of When Love Happens;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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