This is an analysis of the poem Never - Song that begins with:

Love hath no place in her,
Though in her bosom be... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbXbAb cbcbcb CbcbCb AXabAb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111100 100100 111111 101111 111100 1111 100101 110111 100101 001101 100111 1101 100101 110101 1001011 110101 100101 1011 101100 011100 101100 110101 101100 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • 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; soul, why are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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