This is an analysis of the poem Saving Love that begins with:
Would we but love what will not pass away!
The sun that on each morning shines as clear ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba ccaacc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111101101 0111110111 1101110111 0111110101 0101010011 1111011111 1101011111 1101110001 11001000101 1101100101 11110101101 11010101111 1101011001 1110101111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 316
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, when are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase die connects the lines.
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