This is an analysis of the poem Many Will Love You that begins with:

Many will love you; you were made for love;
For the soft plumage of the unruffled dove ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabccb ddecce
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001110111 10110000101 0111110101 1011010111 1111011101 111101 1001111111 10111111101 1111011101 1011011111 1111011101 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; love, you, for are repeated.

    The author used the same word many at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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