This is an analysis of the poem For If Love Fled, If Love It Was... that begins with:
For if love fled, if love it was...
let love go and go with the grief,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbAaA bXXA aXaX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10110101 11111001 101100111101 110101111 10110101 11111001 10010101001 0101001010010 101100111101 110101111 10111001010 1001010001011 1101100111111 100101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, love, go, of, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, for are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines was is repeated).
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