This is an analysis of the poem Without Conditions To Know that begins with:

Love never comes,
To anyone too late....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABBCD EfG BBHHI EfG abbeb BBHHI ABBCD EfG agbbXfg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,5,3,5,5,5,3,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101 010011 0010110101 0100010 101001001 11100010 10100 0101001 11010101 1010101000 0110100101 10101010 1001001 11100010 10100 0101001 1101110 0111001101 111011101 010000100 101000100011001 11010101 1010101000 0110100101 10101010 1001001 1101 010011 0010110101 0100010 101001001 11100010 10100 0101001 11101110 100100101 1101110 100101 010000010 00110100 0111001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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 author used the same words love, no at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Without Conditions To Know;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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