This is an analysis of the poem You Ought To Know Love that begins with:
You gotta know love.
You ought to know love....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAAAAAAA ABACAAAADeFD AGEE AADeFD AACGEEXABAABAABAAAAAAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,12,4,6,22,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011 11011 11011 11011 11011 11011 11011 11011 11011 0101010 11011 111111 11011 11011 11011 11011 01011111 0110111 101111 1001 11011 10101 10101 10111 11011 11011 01011111 01010111 101111 1001 11011 11011 111111 10101 10101 10111 11011 0101010 11011 11011 0101010 11011 11011 0101010 11011 11011 11011 11011 11011 11011 0101010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; you, know, love, on, your, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, when are repeated.
The author used the same word you 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 love is repeated).
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