This is an analysis of the poem You Can't Love that begins with:
You can't love,
Anyone who don't know love....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAAbAAccAabXAa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 111 1001111 111 10000 111 1001111 1010000010 1010000010 1111 01001 1011 1110 1111 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (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; love is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines love is repeated).
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